Law and Development Perspective on International Trade Law

Economic development is the most important agenda in the international trading system today, as demonstrated by the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) adopted in the current multilateral trade negotiations of the World Trade Organization (the Doha Round). This book provides a relevant discussion of major international trade law issues from the perspective of development in the following areas: general issues on international trade law and economic development; and specific law and development issues in World Trade Organization, Free Trade Agreement, and regional initiatives. Although there are publications on trade and development issues, mostly discussing developing countries, few publications deal with law and development issues of international trade law comprehensively in its key areas. This book offers an unparalleled breadth of coverage on the topic and diversity of authorship, as seventeen leading scholars contribute chapters from nine major developed and developing countries, including the United States, Canada, Japan, China (including Hong Kong), South Korea, Australia, Singapore, and Israel.

Yong-Shik Lee is the founding Director and Professorial Fellow of the Law and Development Institute and the founding editor-in-chief of the Law and Development Review. He has developed the concept of microtrade and authored high-profile publications on international trade, including Safeguard Measures in World Trade: The Legal Analysis (2nd edition, 2005) and Reclaiming Development in the World Trading System (2006).

Won-Mog Choi is a Professor of International Trade Law and Director of the WTO Law Center, Ewha Law School in Seoul. As a policy advisor to the Korean government and a columnist in major newspapers in Seoul, he has been playing a leading role in shaping Korea's trade policy and evaluating global Free Trade Agreement phenomenon. His recent publications include Defragmenting Fragmented Rules of Origin: A Building Block to Global Free Trade.

Tomer Broude is Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the Faculty of Law and Department of International Relations and the Academic Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights in Jerusalem. His most recent publications include The Politics of International Economic Law (ed. with Marc L. Busch and Amy Porges).

Gary Horlick is a highly ranked international trade lawyer by Chambers, Euromoney/Institutional Investor, and Who's Who Legal. He has represented leading U.S. and global companies and more than twenty countries in international trade negotiations and disputes, and he has chaired WTO and Mercosur dispute panels.