Processes and Production Methods (PPMs) in WTO Law: Interfacing Trade and Social Goals (Cambridge International Trade and Economic Law, Series Number 5) - Hardcover

Conrad, Christiane R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107008123 ISBN 13: 9781107008120

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Despite a decades-long debate, starting with the 'Tuna-Dolphin' disputes of the 1990s, questions on the status of national regulatory measures linked to processes and production methods in WTO law have yet remained unsolved. Likewise, labelling requirements relating to unincorporated aspects of a product's life cycle remain strongly contested. These ongoing disputes at the WTO as well as global social and environmental challenges related to economic activities show how topical and important the search for adequate answers still is. Processes and Production Methods (PPMS) in WTO Law identifies and comprehensively analyses the key legal problems concerning such measures, setting them in the context of the current debate and its economic and regulatory background. Christiane R. Conrad develops a new approach to this debate which draws on the objectives and established economic rationales of the WTO Agreements.

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About the Author

Christiane R. Conrad is an attorney at law and inhouse lawyer with a telecommunications company in Germany. She was a member of the Collaborative Research Center 'Transformations of State' at the University of Bremen and she has also been a Visiting Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107008123
• ISBN 13: 9781107008120
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 564