Simon A. B. Schropp (G Graduate Institute of International Studies

Trade Policy Flexibility and Enforcement in the Wto

A Law and Economics Analysis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This law and economics analysis of contractual escape and punishment in the WTO assesses existing escape and punishment mechanisms, explores the systemic implications of flaws (in the international trading system), and offers a reform agenda that is concrete, politically realistic, and systemically viable.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge International Trade and Economic Law
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 574g
• ISBN-13: 9781107638181
• ISBN-10: 1107638186
• Artikelnr.: 40304532

Autorenporträt

Simon Schropp is an International Trade Policy Analyst for Sidley Austin LLP, a leading law firm in international trade law and WTO litigation. He has previously worked for the WTO Secretariat and as a research fellow investigating legal and economic issues of the WTO.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: trade policy flexibility in the WTO - vice or virtue?;
Part I. An Introduction to Incomplete Contracting: 2. Complete contracts,
and the contracting ideal; 3. Incomplete contracting, and the essence of
flexibility; Part II. Theorizing about the WTO as an Incomplete Contract:
4. Adding context: the WTO as an incomplete contract; 5. Analyzing the
system of non-performance in the WTO; Part III. Flexibility and Enforcement
in the WTO: Towards an Agenda for Reform: 6. Theorizing about the 'WTO' as
an efficient 'breach' contract; 7. Towards an efficient 'breach' contract:
an agenda for reform.