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A reissue of Robert E. Hudec's seminal study of the situation of developing countries within the international trade system is once again available.
List of contents
Part I. A History of the Legal Relationship: 1. Post-war negotiations on trade liberalization; 2. First decade of the GATT: 1948-57; 3. Demands for a new legal relationship: 1958-63; 4. Defining the new relationship: 1964-71; 5. Testing the new relationship: 1972-9; 6. Developments in the 1980s: form without substance; Part II. A Legal Critique of the GATT's Current Policy: 7. Basic elements of the legal criticism; 8. Separating legal and economic issues; 9. Impact of GATT legal policy on internal decision-making; 10. Impact on decisions in other governments: non-reciprocity; 11. Impact on decisions in other governments: preferences; 12. First steps towards a better legal policy.
About the author
The late Robert E. Hudec was the Melvin E. Steen Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota. He was a leading authority on trade law and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). During the early stages of the Kennedy Round of multilateral trade negotiations, conducted under the auspices of the GATT, he was Assistant General Counsel to the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations (STR) in the Executive Office of the President of the United States (1963–5), later known as the Executive Office of the President. Professor Hudec wrote many articles in professional journals on the law of international economic affairs. He was the author of Adjudication of International Trade Disputes (1977) and The GATT Legal System and World Trade Diplomacy (1975).
Summary
This edition includes a new introduction by J. Michael Finger examining how the GATT got into its current historical-institutional predicament and the lasting impact of Hudec's work on current research on international trade systems.
