This major work consists of carefully commissioned original and incisive contributions from leading scholars in the field of international economic law. Covering a full range of topics, the Handbook provides an accessible treatment of the law in each area, as well as a thoughtful synthesis and...

This article explains how consensus decision making has operated in practice in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization (GATT/WTO). When GATT/WTO bargaining is law-based, consensus outcomes are Pareto-improving and roughly symmetrical. When bargaining is power-based,...

Article 13 of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture, known as the 'Peace Clause', precludes most WTO dispute settlement challenges against a country that is complying with the Agreement's liberalization commitments -- until 1 January 2004, when the Peace Clause will expire. This article evaluates the...

For fifty years, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) system has fostered the development of liberal multilateralism. Originally a short, fifty-page set of rules that governed trade between just twenty-three Contracting Parties, and applying only provisionally because of the failure...

This Centennial Essay elaborates and analyzes the range of stances on the relationship between power and international law that have appeared in the quot;American Journal of International Lawquot; in the last century. While views of the relationship between power and international law are...

This chapter argues that much of contemporary state transformation is driven not by socialization, nor by trade liberalization in the abstract, but by the particular legal-institutional form of trade liberalization since 1948. Contemporary trade liberalization has been a product of US (and,...