Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gbm5v Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-19T11:12:07.667Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

A History of Law and Lawyers in the GATT/WTO. Edited by Gabrielle Marceau . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press and the World Trade Organization, 2015. Pp. xxxii, 655. Index. $155.

Review products

A History of Law and Lawyers in the GATT/WTO. Edited by Gabrielle Marceau . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press and the World Trade Organization, 2015. Pp. xxxii, 655. Index. $155.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2018

Meredith Kolsky Lewis
Meredith Kolsky Lewis*
Affiliation:
University at Buffalo School of Law
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Book Reviews
Information
American Journal of International Law , Volume 112 , Issue 1 , January 2018 , pp. 136 - 142
Copyright
Copyright © 2018 by The American Society of International Law 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 The Rules Division services panels hearing disputes relating to trade remedies (antidumping, subsidies and countervailing measures, and safeguards), state trading, trade-related investment measures, and civil aircraft, and LAD services panels implicating all agreements not covered by the Rules Division.

2 Rubin, S.J., The Judicial Review Problem in the International Trade Organization , Harv. L. Rev. 63, 78–98 (1949)CrossRefGoogle Scholar (cited in footnote 9, page 5).

3 See, e.g., General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Dispute Settlement Procedures, June 15, 1976, NRR/jp (cited in several footnotes beginning with footnote 55, page 14); General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Allocation of Staff, Administrative Memorandum, Apr. 10, 1961, 158/GATT Office Circular 106 (cited in footnote 77, page 19); General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Comments on Procedures Suggested by Professor Jackson for Settlement of Disputes, with Particular Reference to Disputes Between Developed and Developing Countries, Mar. 18, 1976, NRR/jat (cited in footnote 81 on page 20).

4 The sole chapter devoted to the Rules Division, “A Short History of the Rules Division” (chapter 6), was written by Marceau and a junior colleague from LAD, Daniel Ari Baker (albeit with consultation with those with personal experience in the division (p.113)) and focuses almost exclusively on the GATT years, with slightly over one page devoted to the past twenty years (pp. 127–28).

5 J.H.H. Weiler, The Rule of Lawyers and the Ethos of Diplomats: Reflections on the Internal and External Legitimacy of WTO Dispute Settlement (Harvard Jean Monnet Working Paper 9/00).