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Douglas, The International Law of Investment Claims (2009)Statute:Students should obtain their own copy of:Evans, Blackstone’s International Law Documents (any ed)This text may be taken into the examination room.Reference:Aldrich, The Jurisprudence of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal (1996)Brown, A Common Law of International Adjudication (2007)Eiriksson, The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (2000)Fitzmaurice, The Law and Procedure of the International Court of Justice (1986)Gaillard et al, Fouchard, Gaillard & Goldman on International Commercial Arbitration (1999)Gray, Judicial Remedies in International Law (1987)McLachlan et al, Investment Treaty Arbitration: Substantive Principles (2007)Merrills, International Dispute Settlement (4th ed, 2008)Rosenne, The Law and Practice of the International Court, 1920-2005 (2006)Sands et al, Manual on International Courts and Tribunals (2010)Shany, The Competing Jurisdictions of International Courts and Tribunals (2003)Zimmermann et al, The Statute of the International Court of Justice: A Commentary (2006)PAPER 23. THE LAW OF THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATIONThe World Trade Organization (WTO) is the primary organization in the field of economic globalization. WTO law governsthe rights of governments to regulate international trade in goods and services and requires them to protect intellectualproperty. The WTO has an active dispute settlement system which, since 1995, has produced a substantialjurisprudence.The purpose of this course is to study the law of the WTO, as set in a real-world social and political context. In addition tofocusing on the fundamentals of WTO law, the course looks at the relationship between WTO rules and other values,such as the rights of WTO Members to protect public policy interests, such as the environment and human rights. Aspecial theme is the role of developing countries within the WTO system.At the end of the course, students should have an appreciation of the purpose and functions of the WTO and be familiarwith its rules and jurisprudence.The course presumes no prior knowledge of economics or trade policy. It is an advantage, though not mandatory, to havea background in public international law.The first part of the course commences with the history of the WTO and its institutional dimension. Next, it turns to themechanism of trade negotiations and the core WTO principles in goods and services as well as the non-economicexceptions to WTO obligations. Based on this knowledge of substantive WTO law, the course discusses the WTO disputesettlement system, including the relationship between WTO law and other parts of the international legal system (forexample, environmental and human rights law).96
The second part of the course covers more specialized subjects, including the regulation of product standards and of foodsafety and pests, as well as the main trade policy instruments used by governments to protect their domestic industries,ie subsidies and ‘trade remedies’, intellectual property protection, including the legal rights of WTO Members to order‘compulsory licences’ for essential medicines, and the issue of trade and finance.Finally, the course devotes three seminars to a discussion of the major subsystems of trade regulation, which existformally as exceptions to the most-favoured-nation obligation. The first of these is the Generalized System of Preferences(GSP), under which developed countries may grant preferential tariff treatment to developing countries; the second is theregulation of regional trade agreements. We round off the course with a seminar discussing those areas in which regionaltrade agreements go beyond the subjects covered by the WTO.READINGThere are various textbooks and casebooks on WTO law. This course recommends the purchase of at least one of thetextbooks noted below, but it does not rely on either exclusively. The casebooks also contain some helpful material, but,again, the course does not rely on these.The course will be taught on the basis of weekly handouts with reading lists. These will be divided into mandatory readingand recommended reading. The mandatory reading will be mainly primary materials in the form of treaty texts, subsidiaryWTO instruments and dispute settlement reports (ie the cases). It is essential to bring these materials to class. The treatytexts are collected in The Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations: The Legal Texts (any edition)and it is essential to purchase this book. This book may also be taken into the final exam.Other materials, and in particular, dispute settlement reports, are not readily available and must be printed out andbrought to class. These can be lengthy. Unfortunately the Law Faculty is unable to subsidise printing costs. The materialslisted as ‘recommended reading’ do not need to be brought to class.Textbooks:Matsushita et al, The World Trade Organization (2nd ed 2006)Trebilcock and Howse, The Regulation of International Trade (3rd ed 2005)Casebooks:Van den Bossche, The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization (2nd ed 2008)Lester and Mercurio, World Trade Law (2008)The policy and economics of international trade:This course is not an economics or trade policy course. However, a basic understanding of these matters will greatlyassist in understanding WTO law. Some useful and readable books, taking an orthodox line, are:Bhagwati, In Defense of Globalization (2nd ed 2007)Irwin, Free Trade Under Fire (3rd ed 2009)Irwin, Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade (1996)Krugman, Pop Internationalism (1996)A more critical book is:97
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