The EU, the WTO and the NAFTA
- Towards a Common Law of International Trade
Edited by J. H. H. Weiler,
Manley Hudson Professor and Jean Monnet Chair, Harvard University
Description
'this is an excellent,
thought-provoking collection of essays which can be read with profit by both European and
international lawyers. There has been much discussion coparing the institutional stuctures
of the EU and the WTO, in particular about whether one can speak of the
"constitution" of the WTO. This volume concentrates rather on the substantive
law of the two organisations. This departure is to be welcomed.' Matthew
Happold International and Comparative Law Quarterly
This volume, built on a
recent series of courses at the Academy of European Law, Florence, addresses the
overlapping regulatory trade regimes of the WTO, the EU and the NAFTA. The various
contributions deal with discrete areas of the international trading system each placing
considerable emphasis on the interlocking nature of the various components of that system.
The co-existence of regimes, often governing simultaneously complex transnational
transactions, is the focus of the volume.
Readership: Scholars and practitioners interested in international trade law; in European
integration, in international relations generally. Libraries and reference.
Contents/contributors
- J.H.H.
Weiler: Introduction: Cain and Abel - Convergence and Divergence in International Trade
Law
- 1
Marise Cremona: EC External Commercial Policy after Amsterdam: Authority and
Interpretation within Interconnected Legal Orders
- 2
Robert Howse: Adjudicative Legitimacy and Treaty Interpretation in International Trade
Law: The Early Years of WTO Jurisprudence
- 3
Jacques H. J. Bourgeois: The European Court of Justice and the WTO: Problems and
Challenges
- 4
Joanne Scott: On Kith and Kine (and Crustaceans): Trade and Environment in the EU and WTO
- 5
Frederick M. Abbott: The North American Integration Regime and its Implications for the
World Trading System
- J.H.H.
Weiler: Epilogue: Towards a Common Law
230 pages