The law and politics of WTO waivers [electronic resource] : stability and flexibility in public international law / Isabel Feichtner.

9781107012899
9781139186162 (electronic book)

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

English

xiv, 393 p.

K3943 .F45 2012

343/.087

"Despite being an important legal instrument in the law of the WTO, the waiver has hitherto been the subject of little scholarly analysis. Isabel Feichtner fills this gap by challenging the conventional view that the WTO's political bodies do not engage in significant law-making. She systemises the GATT and WTO waiver practice and suggests a typology of waivers as individual exception, general exception and rule-making instruments. She also presents the procedural and substantive legal requirements for the granting of waivers, deals with questions of judicial review and interpretation of waiver decisions, and clarifies the waiver's potential and limits for addressing the need for flexibility and adaptability in public international law and WTO law in particular. By connecting the analysis of waiver competence and waiver practice to the general stability/flexibility challenge in public international law, the book sheds new light on the WTO, international institutions and international law"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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