| The Law and Politics of Wto Waivers: Stability and Flexibility in Public International Law Contributor(s): Feichtner, Isabel (Author) |
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ISBN: 1139003348 ISBN-13: 9781139003346 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $156.75 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: December 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | International - Law | Military |
| Dewey: 343.087 |
| Series: Cambridge International Trade and Economic Law |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Despite being an important legal instrument in the law of the WTO, the waiver has hitherto been the subject of little scholarly analysis. Isabel Feichtner fills this gap by challenging the conventional view that the WTO's political bodies do not engage in significant law-making. She systemises the GATT and WTO waiver practice and suggests a typology of waivers as individual exception, general exception and rule-making instruments. She also presents the procedural and substantive legal requirements for the granting of waivers, deals with questions of judicial review and interpretation of waiver decisions, and clarifies the waiver's potential and limits for addressing the need for flexibility and adaptability in public international law and WTO law in particular. By connecting the analysis of waiver competence and waiver practice to the general stability/flexibility challenge in public international law, the book sheds new light on the WTO, international institutions and international law. |
Contributor Bio(s): Feichtner, Isabel: - Isabel Feichtner is Assistant Professor of Law and Economics at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She also advises the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety on legal questions regarding the reform of International Environmental Governance. |