WTO Jurisprudence: Governments, Private Rights , Guan..

Taylor & Francis

WTO JurisprudenceGovernments, Private Rights, and International Trade\nAuthor(s): Wenwei Guan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367428761, 978-0367428761\nSynopsis\nThis book offers a critical examination of the jurisprudence of the World Trade Organization (WTO) as an emancipatory international social contract on trade.\n\nThe book suggests that the WTO is an international organization built and operating on member states attribution of authority through consent with legislative, administrative, and adjudicative functions three functions in one triune personality. With a solid constitutional continuity building on GATT experiences, the WTO has successfully made governments accountable to foreign individuals in various capacities either as traders of goods, providers of services, or holders of intellectual property rights within the global marketplace. With a triune personality, the WTO operates within the reign .