Full Description
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, the world has witnessed increasing manifestations of eroding trust in the international trade regime, including Brexit and the Trump administration's unilateral trade policies. Restoring trust in the international trading system is essential to prevent the rise of economic nationalism and beggar-thy-neighbour policies, which as history has shown are a threat to global welfare and peace.
As a scholar, counsellor of the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat, and, between 2009 and 2017, a member of the WTO Appellate Body, Peter Van den Bossche has addressed the challenges faced by the international trade regime and has tirelessly promoted trust in the multilateral governance model. This Liber Amicorum honours his contribution to the development of a 'trustworthy' rules-based multilateral trading system, which has left a lasting legacy.
In this timely book, leading experts and friends of Peter Van den Bossche, including his mentors, colleagues and PhD candidates, come together to pay tribute to his work by exploring, from a legal perspective, what can be done to restore trust in trade, focusing on: (1) ensuring a robust institutional framework that promotes rule of law over power politics, (2) safeguarding the integrity and effectiveness of trade dispute settlement, and (3) ensuring that substantive international trade rules appropriately balance trade and non-trade interests.
Contents
Jens Hillebrand Pohl, Iveta Alexovicová and Denise Prévost
PART I
DIALOGUE OVER POWER: ENSURING A ROBUST INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK
1. Effecting Global Economic Governance Th rough the WTO: One Step at a Time?
Mary E Footer
2. Trade Policies in Support of Inclusive Growth to the Benefit of All
Maarten Smeets and Mina Mashayekhi
3. Gx Dynamics in Global Trade Governance
Jan Wouters and Tine Carmeliet
4. Governance Systems of Geographical Indications: An Example of Institutions Enabling Trust and Cooperation Among Producers
Anke Moerland
PART II
INTEGRITY AND EFFECTIVENESS: SAFEGUARDING THE PROPER FUNCTIONING OF TRADE DISPUTE SETTLEMENT
5. The WTO Dispute Settlement System and the Challenges to Multilateralism: Consolidating a 'Common Global Good'
Giorgio Sacerdoti
6. The 'Crown Jewel' of the WTO Has Been Stolen by US Trade Diplomats - And They Have No Intention of Giving It Back
Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann
7. The Prospects of Equity in International Economic Law
Thomas Cottier
8. Blueprint for a Plurilateral WTO Arbitration Agreement under Article 25 of the Dispute Settlement Understanding
Jens Hillebrand Pohl
9. Improving the Enforcement of Labour Standards in the EU's Free Trade Agreements
Marco Bronckers and Giovanni Gruni
PART III
BALANCING TRADE AND NON-TRADE VALUES AND INTERESTS: THE FUTURE EVOLUTION
OF SUBSTANTIVE INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW
10. Do PPM Concerns Have A Future?
Gabrielle Marceau
11. Incentives and Obstacles for Innovation
Anselm Kamperman Sanders
12. EU Food Law and the WTO: Trade, Science and Politics
Ellen Vos and Sabrina Röttger-Wirtz
13. The General and Security Exceptions in the European Union's Free Trade Agreements
Gian Franco Chianale
Essai Typologique: Eternal Clauses - Human and Divine - A Reflection on Deuteronomy XIII:1-6, Matthew 28 and Galatians I
Joseph HH Weiler
