Robert E. Hudec

Developing Countries in the GATT Legal System

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Produktbeschreibung

A reissue of Robert E. Hudec's seminal study of the situation of developing countries within the international trade system is once again available.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 343g
• ISBN-13: 9781107692169
• ISBN-10: 1107692164
• Artikelnr.: 40788609

Autorenporträt

The late Robert E. Hudec was the Melvin E. Steen Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota. He was a leading authority on trade law and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). During the early stages of the Kennedy Round of multilateral trade negotiations, conducted under the auspices of the GATT, he was Assistant General Counsel to the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations (STR) in the Executive Office of the President of the United States (1963-5), later known as the Executive Office of the President. Professor Hudec wrote many articles in professional journals on the law of international economic affairs. He was the author of Adjudication of International Trade Disputes (1977) and The GATT Legal System and World Trade Diplomacy (1975).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. A History of the Legal Relationship: 1. Post-war negotiations on trade liberalization
2. First decade of the GATT: 1948-57
3. Demands for a new legal relationship: 1958-63
4. Defining the new relationship: 1964-71
5. Testing the new relationship: 1972-9
6. Developments in the 1980s: form without substance
Part II. A Legal Critique of the GATT's Current Policy: 7. Basic elements of the legal criticism
8. Separating legal and economic issues
9. Impact of GATT legal policy on internal decision-making
10. Impact on decisions in other governments: non-reciprocity
11. Impact on decisions in other governments: preferences
12. First steps towards a better legal policy.