The World Trade Organization in 2020

Steve Charnovitz

Chapter 18 in The Path of World Trade Law in the 21st Century, 2014, pp 715-744 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The inauguration of a new international journal and the commencement of the second decade of the World Trade Organization (WTO) together provide an opportunity to reflect on the WTO’s legacy and its future. Government policies are always experiments, as Jan Tumlir explained. To date, the experiment of the WTO has achieved success beyond the expectation of many observers. What lies ahead? The leading international trade law casebook admits that “[i]t is hard to tell what may happen in the future”. Still, we should try to discern the horizon as part of our efforts to improve future conditions in international economic governance…

Keywords: International Law; Environment; Global Law; World Trade; International Organization; Labor Law; Sustainable Development; Labor Relations; WTO; International Migration; Discrimination; International Governance; Globalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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