WTO : : Institutions and dispute settlement / / edited by Rudiger Wolfrum, Peter-Tobias Stoll, and Karen Kaiser.

• Superior document: Max Planck commentaries on world trade law, 2
• TeilnehmendeR: Wolfrum, Rudiger.; Stoll, Peter-Tobias.; Kaiser, Karen.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Max Planck commentaries on world trade law ; 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (704 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Two of the greatest achievements of the Uruguay Round were the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO) as – compared to the GATT – a fully-fledged international organization and the creation of a new, uniform and binding dispute settlement system. While the failure of the Ministerial Conferences in Seattle and Cancún revealed the first cracks in the institutional structure of the WTO, the operation of the new dispute settlement system has so far been a remarkable success. In a practical and authoritative article-by-article account, this volume covers the legislative history, interpretation and practical application of the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization, Articles XXII, XXIII, and XXIV GATT 1994, the Dispute Settlement Understanding, the Trade Review Policy Mechanism, the Understanding in Respect of Waivers of Obligations under the GATT 1994 and the Understanding on the Interpretation of Article XXIV GATT 1994. Written by a team of distinguished scholars and practitioners, the volume is an indispensable work of reference for all those interested in the WTO institutional fundamentals and the dispute settlement system (international lawyers, scholars and students of WTO law, diplomats and international civil servants, members of NGOs).

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Rüdiger Wolfrum and Peter-Tobias Stoll -- Agreement Establishing the Worldtrade Organization / Rüdiger Wolfrum and Peter-Tobias Stoll -- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 / Rüdiger Wolfrum and Peter-Tobias Stoll -- Understanding on the Interpretation of Article XXIV of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 / Rüdiger Wolfrum and Peter-Tobias Stoll -- Understanding in Respect of Waivers of Obligations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 / Rüdiger Wolfrum and Peter-Tobias Stoll -- Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes / Rüdiger Wolfrum and Peter-Tobias Stoll -- Trade Policy Review Mechanism / Rüdiger Wolfrum and Peter-Tobias Stoll -- Appendix / Rüdiger Wolfrum and Peter-Tobias Stoll -- Index / Rüdiger Wolfrum and Peter-Tobias Stoll.