Treaty interpretation by the WTO Appellate Body / Isabelle Van Damme.
2009
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Title
Treaty interpretation by the WTO Appellate Body / Isabelle Van Damme.
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Call Number
K4610 .D362 2009
ISBN
9780199562237 (cloth : alk. paper)
0199562237 (cloth : alk. paper)
0199562237 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description
lxvi, 419 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)243546324
Summary
This text analyses the law of treaty interpretation as applied by the WTO Appellate Body. By focusing on the development of the law in practice, and the intersection of customary international law principles with the growth of WTO specific law, the book reveals the complexity of treaty interpretation in a major international law forum.
Note
This text analyses the law of treaty interpretation as applied by the WTO Appellate Body. By focusing on the development of the law in practice, and the intersection of customary international law principles with the growth of WTO specific law, the book reveals the complexity of treaty interpretation in a major international law forum.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [387]-412) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of Cited WTO Panel and Appellate Body Reports Initiated WTO Disputes, and their Common Abbreviations
List of Cited GATT Panel and Working Party Reports, and their Common Abbreviations
Table of Cases
I
The Basic Principles and Concepts Governing WTO Dispute Settlement and Treaty Interpretation
1
The WTO Dispute Settlement System
3
2
Principles of Treaty Interpretation: Meaning and Function
32
3
The Subject of Treaty Interpretation in WTO Dispute Settlement
73
4
The Interpretation of Silence in the WTO Covered Agreements
110
5
Inherent Powers and Treaty Interpretation
157
II
The Interpretative Practice of the WTO Appellate Body
6
The Contextual Interpretation of the WTO Covered Agreements
213
7
The Effective Interpretation of the WTO Covered Agreements
275
8
Other Issues in WTO Treaty Interpretation
305
9
WTO Treaty Interpretation Against the Background of Other International Law
355
III
Conclusions
Conclusion
379
Appendix
Articles 31, 32, and 33 VCLT
385
Bibliography
387
Index
413