Redesigning the World Trade Organization for the Twenty-First Century

Herausgeber: Steger, Debra P

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Produktbeschreibung

Two high-level commissions--the Sutherland report in 2004, and the Warwick Commission report in 2007--addressed the future of the World Trade Organization and made proposals for incremental reform. This book goes further; it explains why institutional reform of the WTO is needed at this critical juncture in world history and provides innovative, practical proposals for modernizing the WTO to enable it to respond to the challenges of the twenty-first century. Contributors focus on five critical areas: transparency, decision- and rule-making procedures, internal management structures, participation by non-governmental organizations and civil society, and relationships with regional trade agreements. Co-published with the International Development Research Centre and the Centre for International Governance Innovation

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 498
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781554581566
• ISBN-10: 1554581567
• Artikelnr.: 26155864

Autorenporträt

Debra Steger is a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, where she teaches international trade, international dispute settlement, and international investment law. She is also the founder and director of the EDGE Network on the emerging, dynamic, global economies-a multidisciplinary research network focused on institutional reform of the World Trade Organization. She served recently as chair of a WTO panel and from 1995 to 2001 was the first director of the Appellate Body Secretariat of the World Trade Organization in Geneva. She is the author of Peace through Trade: Building the World Trade Organization (2004) and co-editor of Law in the Service of Human Dignity: Essays in Honour of Florentino Feliciano (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for
Redesigning the World Trade Organization for the Twenty-first Century,
edited by Debra P. Steger
Foreword Julio Lacarte Muró
Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms
Part I: Why Institutional Reform Is Necessary
Why Institutional Reform of the WTO Is Necessary Debra Steger
Reinvigorating Debate on WTO Reform: The Contours of a Functional and
Normative Approach to Analyzing the WTO System Carolyn Deere Birkbeck
Part II: Decision-Making in the WTO
A Two-Tier Approach to WTO Decision-Making Thomas Cottier
WTO Decision-Making: Can We Get a Little Help from the Secretariat and the
Critical Mass? Manfred Elsig
Improvements to the WTO Decision-Making Process: Lessons from the
International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Alberto Alvarez-Jiménez
Part III: Internal Management of the WTO
Internal Management of the WTO: Room for Improvement Debra Steger and
Natalia Shpilkovskaya
Part IV: Transparency and Domestic Consultation
From the Periphery to the Centre? The Evolving WTO Jurisprudence on
Transparency and Good Governance Padideh Ala'i
Selective Adaptation of WTO Transparency Norms and Local Practices in China
and Japan Ljiljana Biukoviç
Domestic Politics and the Search for a New Social Purpose of Governance for
the WTO: A Proposal for a Declaration on Domestic Consultation Seema
Sapra
Enhancing Business Participation in Trade Policy-Making: Lessons from China
Heng Wang
Part V: Public Participation
Options for Public Participation in the WTO: Experience from Regional Trade
Agreements Yves Bonzon
Non-Governmental Organizations and the WTO: Limits to Involvement? Peter
van den Bossche
Part VI: Regional Trade Agreements and the WTO
Accommodating Developing Countries in the WTO: From Mega-Debates to
Economic Partnership Agreements Gerhard Erasmus
Saving the WTO from the Risk of Irrelevance: The WTO Dispute Settlement
Mechanism as a "Common Good" for RTA Disputes Henry Gao and Chin Leng Lim
Regional Trade Agreements and the WTO: The Gyrating Gears of
Interdependence Pablo Heidrich and Diana Tussie
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Contributors
Padideh Ala'i is Professor of Law at Washington College of Law, American
University in Washington, D.C., where she specializes in areas of
international trade law, development, and comparative legal traditions. She
teaches World Trade Organization law and writes in the areas of history and
free trade, international efforts to combat corruption, and trade and good
governance. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1988 and was
in private legal practice with the law firms of Jones Day and Reichler,
Milton and Medel prior to joining the American University in 1997. From
2003 to 2005, she was the Co-Chair of the International Economic Law Group
of the American Society of International Law.
Alberto Alvarez-Jiménez is a Colombian lawyer and holds a Doctor of Laws
from the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. He is a former Research
Fellow of the EDGE Network and now serves as a consultant and law
professor. He has lectured in North America, Latin America, and Europe, and
his articles on international trade law and foreign investment law have
been published in a number of leading international journals.
Ljiljana Biukovic is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University
of British Columbia, Canada. She teaches Contracts, European Union Law,
External Relations of the European Union, and Global Law. Her current
research interests are in the areas of international trade, in particular
on the adaptation of international legal norms by national governments and
the impact of regionalism on multilateral trade negotiations, as well as
the development of European Union law. She is an Associate of the Institute
for European Studies at UBC. She recently received the Farris Award to
examine the interface between commercial arbitration and the courts in
Canada.
Yves Bonzon is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Law, University of
Lausanne in Switzerland. In 2007-08, he was a Visiting Researcher at the
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., and in 2005-06 a
researcher for the NCCR Trade Regulations project based at the World Trade
Institute in Bern, Switzerland. He is now completing a doctoral thesis on
the regulation of non-state actors' participation in WTO decision-making.
Thomas Cottier is Managing Director of the World Trade Institute, Professor
of European and International Economics Law, and Dean of the Faculty of
Law, University of Bern, Switzerland. He directs a national research
program on trade law and policy- NCCR-Trade. He was a Visiting Professor at
the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and currently teaches also at the Europa
Institut Saarbrcken, Germany, and at Wuhan University, China. Professor
Cottier has had a long-standing involvement in GATT/WTO activities. He
served on the Swiss negotiating team of the Uruguay Round from 1986 to
1993, first as chief negotiator on dispute settlement and subsidies for
Switzerland, and subsequently as chief negotiator on TRIPs. He has held
several positions in the Swiss External Economic Affairs Department and was
the Deputy-Director General of the Swiss Intellectual Property Office. He
has also served as a panel member in a number of disputes in the WTO.
Carolyn Deere Birkbeck is the Director of the Global Trade Governance
Project in the Global Economic Governance Programme, University College,
Oxford. She is also a Senior Research Associate at Oxford University's
Centre for International Studies and a Resident Scholar at the
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) in
Geneva, Switzerland.
Manfred Elsig is a Senior Research Fellow at the World Trade Institute in
Bern, Switzerland, and a Visiting Lecturer at the Graduate Institute of
International and Development Studies in Geneva. From 1997 to 1999, he
worked at the Swiss Federal Office for Foreign Economic Affairs. He later
joined the Institute of Political Science of the University of Zurich and
received his Ph.D. in 2002. After working as a personal advisor to the
Minister of Economy in Zurich, he taught at the London School of Economics
and Political Science in 2004-05. His research focuses primarily on the
international political economy of trade, European Union trade policy,
international organizations, and private actors in global politics.
Gerhard Erasmus is an Associate with the Trade Law Centre for Southern
Africa (TRALAC), in Stellenbosch, South Africa, which he founded in 2002
with the initial financial assistance of the Swiss Government. He is also
Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Law, University of Stellenbosch. He
has been involved in the drafting of new constitutions in Namibia, Malawi,
and South Africa and has worked on regional water law projects in southern
Africa. He holds an LL.B from the University of the Free State, South
Africa, a Master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in
Boston, Massachusetts, and an LL.D from the University of Leiden in the
Netherlands. He is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa and
serves on the editorial boards of a number of African law journals.
Henry Gao is currently on leave from the Faculty of Law, University of Hong
Kong, and is Associate Professor of Law at Singapore Management University.
He has published widely on issues relating to China and WTO. He has spoken
at conferences around the world and trained hundreds of government
officials on WTO issues. A consultant to several national governments and
international organizations, including the WTO, the World Bank, and the
APEC, he is also a frequent commentator in major international media such
as the Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Bloomberg.
Pablo Heidrich is Senior Researcher, Trade and Development, with the
North-South Institute in Ottawa, Canada. Previously, he worked for the
Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) and the Latin
American Trade Network (LATN) in Argentina, where his research focused on
issues of regionalism, energy integration, and infrastructure. He studied
political economy and public policy at the University of Southern
California, focusing on the links between financial crises and trade policy
in the developing world. He holds a Master's degree in International
Political Economy from the University of Tsukuba in Japan.
Julio Lacarte Muró was the first Chairman of the WTO Appellate Body and
Chair of the Uruguay Round negotiations on the establishment of the WTO and
the dispute settlement understanding. He was Delegate or Head Delegate to
numerous international conferences, including the United Nations, World
Bank, International Monetary Fund, International Labour Organisation,
UNCTAD, UNESCO, the Organization of American States, Latin American Free
Trade Association, the River Plate Basin, Economic Commission of the United
Nations for Latin America and the Caribbean, Inter-American Development
Bank, Group of 77, Latin American Economic System, the Food and Agriculture
Organisation, Non-Aligned Nations, UN Economic Commission for Africa, and
the WTO. He has had a long and distinguished career as a diplomat,
including as Uruguay's ambassador to Argentina, Germany, Japan, and the
United States, as well as ambassador to the Organization of American
States, the United Nations (Geneva) and the GATT. He served as Minister of
Trade and Industry in Uruguay, as well as President of the Uruguayan
Chamber of Commerce and Services. He has been a frequent panellist and
Chair in WTO dispute settlement proceedings as well as in disputes under
NAFTA and MERCOSUR. Decorated by the governments of Argentina, Bolivia,
Ecuador, and Germany, he received the Medal of the Uruguayan Foreign
Service. The author of numerous books and articles, he has also been a
lecturer at the International Faculty for Comparative Law in Strasbourg as
well as ORT University and Artigas Foreign Service Institute in Montevideo.
Chin Leng Lim is currently Academic Dean and Professor of Law at the Hong
Kong University Law School. Following an academic career in England, he
left London University's Queen Mary & Westfield College in 1998 to join the
United Nations Secretariat in Geneva, where he worked on Gulf War
reparations. Subsequently, he was an international lawyer in the Singapore
Attorney-Generals Chambers and counsel to the Government of Singapore in
its free trade agreement negotiations. He also has been a member of the law
school at the National University of Singapore.
Seema Sapra is a practising lawyer in New Delhi, India, and has several
years of private practice experience, having worked in commercial law firms
as well as with the office of the Attorney General of India. She works and
writes on trade and WTO issues. She has served as a Visiting Fellow at the
Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)
and was the Director of Trade and Policy at the law firm of Amarchand
Mangaldas in New Delhi. She has also been a visiting fellow at the
Institute of International Economic Law, Georgetown University Law Centre,
Washington, D.C. Ms. Sapra is also a contributor to the "India in the WTO"
blog.
Natalia Shpilkovskaya is currently Editor of the "Bridges" project at the
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), Geneva.
Previously, she was First Secretary--Legal Adviser in the Permanent Mission
of the Russian Federation to the United Nations Office and other
international organizations in Geneva (2002 to 2006). She holds an LL.B.
from Moscow State Academy of Law and an LL.M. from the University of
Ottawa.
Debra Steger is Professor at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law,
where she teaches in the fields of international trade, international
investment, dispute settlement, and governance of international
institutions. She is also the leader of the EDGE Network project on global
economic governance. Previously, she served as the first Director of the
Appellate Body Secretariat of the World Trade Organization in Geneva.
Recently, she was Chair of a WTO dispute settlement panel. During the
Uruguay Round, she was the Senior Negotiator for Canada on Dispute
Settlement and the Establishment of the World Trade Organization as well as
the Principal Counsel to the Government of Canada for all of the Uruguay
Round agreements. From 1991 to 1995, she was General Counsel of the
Canadian International Trade Tribunal. She serves on the Editorial Advisory
Board of the Journal of International Economic Law, as well as in executive
capacities in several international law organizations.
Diana Tussie is Head of the Department of International Relations at
FLACSO/Argentina and is the founding Director of the Latin American Trade
Network (LATN). She has served as junior secretary for trade negotiations
in the Government of Argentina, and was a member of the International Trade
Commission in Argentina. She is a current member of the Committee for
Development Policy of the United Nations and serves on the editorial boards
of several international journals. In 2007, she joined colleagues from
Canada and India in the external evaluation of the WTO's technical
assistance program.
Peter Van den Bossche is Professor of International Economic Law, Head of
the Department of International and European Law, and Academic Director of
the Institute for Globalisation and International Regulation at Maastricht
University in the Netherlands. He holds an LL.M. from the University of
Michigan and a Ph.D. in law from the European University Institute,
Florence. From 1997 to 2001, he was Counsellor in the Appellate Body
Secretariat of the World Trade Organization, Geneva. In 2001, he served as
Acting Director of the Appellate Body Secretariat.
Heng Wang is Associate Professor at Southwest University of Political
Science and Law, China. He is a member of Executive Council of the Society
of International Economic Law and of the Organizing and Selection Committee
of the Asian International Economic Law Network. He has lectured at nearly
30 universities in North America and Europe, including Northwestern
University, London School of Economics and Political Science, University
College London, and University of Paris I. He has conducted research at the
WTO Secretariat and been a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law,
University of Ottawa. Most recently, he served as a Visiting Professor at
Yokohama National University.