TY - BOOK ID - 32309285 TI - The law and politics of WTO waivers : stability and flexibility in public international law PY - 2012 VL - 7 SN - 9781107012899 9781139003346 9781107471115 1107012899 1107471117 1139003348 1139179993 1139183842 1139186167 1139188461 1139189778 1139191063 1283384167 9786613384164 PB - Cambridge: Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Foreign trade regulation KW - Foreign trade promotion KW - Waiver KW - Commerce extérieur KW - Renonciation (Droit) KW - Réglementation KW - Promotion KW - World Trade Organization. KW - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade KW - Foreign trade promotion. KW - Waiver. KW - World Trade Organization KW - Foreign trade regulation. KW - Law / international. KW - Law KW - General and Others KW - Commerce international KW - Réglementation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32309285 AB - "International law and institutions increasingly not only deal with transactions across the borders of sovereign states, but instead promote and protect transnational societal interests. To give but a few examples: international legal regimes obligate states to limit greenhouse gas emissions by national households and industry, to put into place administrative and judicial procedures for the protection of intellectual property rights, or they restrict domestic governmental powers to adopt policies that encroach upon human rights or impede international trade. The observation that international law promotes transnationally shared societal interests, such as interests in a clean environment, cross-border trade, property or human rights protection does not implicate a value judgment. It does not follow that such law is beyond criticism and exclusively for the good of human kind. Rather it implicates trade-offs -trade-offs between economic and non-economic interests, for example, or trade-offs between individual freedom and public interest policies"-- "Despite being an important legal instrument in the law of the WTO, the waiver has hitherto been the subject of little scholarly analysis. Isabel Feichtner fills this gap by challenging the conventional view that the WTO's political bodies do not engage in significant law-making. She systemises the GATT and WTO waiver practice and suggests a typology of waivers as individual exception, general exception and rule-making instruments. She also presents the procedural and substantive legal requirements for the granting of waivers, deals with questions of judicial review and interpretation of waiver decisions, and clarifies the waiver's potential and limits for addressing the need for flexibility and adaptability in public international law and WTO law in particular. By connecting the analysis of waiver competence and waiver practice to the general stability/flexibility challenge in public international law, the book sheds new light on the WTO, international institutions and international law"-- ER -