Research Catalog

Title

Enforcing international trade law : the evolution of the modern GATT legal system / Robert E. Hudec.

Author

Hudec, Robert E.

Publication

Salem, N.H. : Butterworth Legal Publishers, ©1993.

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Details

Description

xvi, 630 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"This book presents a history and analysis of the GATT legal system as it stands today at the beginning of the 1990s. Although the origins of GATT law go back to the GATT/ITO negotiations of 1946-1948 and beyond, the current legal system is largely the product of a reconstruction that took place from 1970 onwards. The book focuses on the evolution of GATT law during this modern period. It concentrates on the development of GATT's procedure for adjudicating legal disputes between member countries, known in GATT parlance as the "dispute settlement procedure"--The Preface, p. vii.

Subject

• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Organization) > History
• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Organization)
• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Organization) > Law and legislation
• GATT 1947
• GATT 1947
• Geschichte 1948-1990
• Tariff > Law and legislation > History
• Foreign trade regulation > History
• 83.42 international trade
• 86.85 sources of international law
• Aspects juridiques
• Droit commercial international
• GATT
• Histoire économique
• UE/CE Relations extérieures
• Foreign trade regulation
• Tariff > Law and legislation
• Internationaal handelsrecht
• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Sequel to: The GATT legal system and world trade diplomacy.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 609-619) and index.

Contents

Preface : An outline of the study -- I. Introduction. 1. An introduction to the GATT -- 2. An overview of GATT legal history : 1948-1990 -- II. GATT law in the 1970s. 3. The policy background : 1970-1979 -- 4. Dispute settlement in the 1970s -- 5. The DISC case -- III. GATT law in the 1980s. 6. The political and economic background : 1980-1989 -- 7. The GATT agenda 1980-1985 : forward movement stalls -- 8. GATT dispute settlement : 1980-1985 -- 9. The GATT agenda 1985-1990 : the effort to restructure GATT -- 10. GATT dispute settlement : 1985-1990 -- IV. Analysis and conclusions. 11. A statistical profile of GATT dispute settlement cases : 1948-1989 -- 12. Where do things stand, and where are they going? -- Appendix.

ISBN

• 1880633558
• 9781880633557
• 0880633557
• 9780880633550

LCCN

• 93010758
• ZBWT00558731

OCLC

• ocm27974954
• 27974954
• SCSB-8978616

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library