National treatment and WTO dispute settlement
Subtitle: adjudicating the boudaries of regulatory autonomy
By: Gaëtn Verhoosel.
Publisher: Hart Pub.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: Dispute resolution (Law); Foreign trade regulation.
Description: "The perceived impact of WTO law on the domestic regulatory autonomy of WTO Members is increasingly becoming the subject of controversy and debate.  This book brings together in an integrated analytical framework the main WTO parameters defining the interface between the WTO and domestic legal orders, and examines how WTO adjudicators, i.e. panels and the Appellate Body, have construed those rules.  A critical analysis identifies the flaws or weaknesses of these quasi-judicial solutions and their potential consequences for Members' regulatory autonomy.  In an attempt to identify a more proper balance between WTO law and regulatory autonomy, it develops an innovative interpretation of the National Treatment obligations in GATT and GATS, drawing upon compelling arguments from legal, logic and economic theory."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [117]-122) and index.