The selected articles cover various topics related to WTO law, ranging from some principles of WTO law, the WTO dispute settlement system as seen from the Bar, how it operated in one particular area, the use of a "waiver" in the area of TRIPs and health, to whether direct taxation is covered by the WTO, and to connected EC trade policy aspects, such as powers, the effect of WTO law in the EC legal system, the EC's first regulation on "illicit trade practices", the relationship between EC trade policy and other policies and to the cost and benefits of EC trade measures.
Contents in Brief
Chapter 1 Subsidiarity in the WTO Context from a Legal Perspective
Chapter 2 Internal Morality of WTO Law
Chapter 3 Some Reflections on the WTO Dispute Settlement System from a Practitioner's Perspective
Chapter 4 GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement Practice in the Field of Anti- dumping law
Chapter 5 Implementing Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health
Chapter 6 WTO and Direct Taxation In and Out
Chapter 7 The European Court of Justice and the WTO Problems and Challenges
Chapter 8 International Jurisprudence and Domestic Law: some Comments from a European Community Perspective
Chapter 9 Trade Policy-Making Institutions and Procedures in the European Community
Chapter 10 The EC in the WTO and Advisory Opinion 1/94: An Echternach Procession
Chapter 11 The EC's Trade Policy Powers After Nice: Painting Oneself in a Corner
Chapter 12 EC Rules Against "Illicit Trade Practices" - Policycosmetics or International Law Enforcement?
Chapter 13 An EC Perspective Trade Measures CompetitionPolicy and the Consumer
Chapter 14 The Working of EC Policies on Competition Industry and Trade Legal Analysis
Chapter 15 EC Trade policy measures their costs and benefits
About the Author
Mr. Bourgeois holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Gent and studied economics at the University of Louvain and comparative law at the University of Michigan Law School. He was a Jean Monnet professor at the University of Bonn Law School. He has written extensively and lectured in many countries on EC trade law, the GATT/WTO and WTO dispute settlement.
