Book Launch Event: 'The Development of World Trade Organisation Law

4:00pm - 6:00pm / Monday 25th April 2016 / Venue: First Floor - Social Space South Teaching Hub
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Understanding the development of WTO law in its wider institutional context is critical to comprehending WTO law in a new age of legal globalization. The Development of World Trade Organization Law: Examining Change in International Law examines the development of the law of the WTO through an analysis of competing global actors, norms, and institutions, taking a different approach to social-scientific or traditional legal models. Identifying causal language as key to understanding this development, the volume examines three different causal influences: instrumental, systemic, and constitutive. It applies this causal methodology to three key areas of WTO law—safeguard measures, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, and subsidies. The volume provides detailed explanations of why the law has developed as it has and offers insights into the future functioning of the WTO system and international law more widely.
Gregory Messenger is Lecturer in Law, University of Liverpool.