What is it about?
This article suggests why the World Trade Organisation (WTO)'s should use, when evaluating its own effectiveness, an interactional international law framework which applies L. Fuller's concepts of adjudication and legality. An interactional world trade law asserts that the efficacy of WTO law depends not only on its role in adjudication, but also on facilitating interactional legal practices to improve transparency and enforcement.
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Why is it important?
The lack of WTO law theory, the ongoing debate on the WTO law compliance rules, the Doha Development Round stalemate, and absence of legality standards for evaluating the rules of the WTO Dispute settlement System, all require a theoretical framework with a comprehensive international law compliance theory. I believe the Interactional International Law provides this framework as illustrated by this article.
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I hope this article will be useful for students and scholars of international trade law. Interactional law between economic traders existed prior to the WTO, and will continue to exist for generations regardless of its continuance. Thus, it is noteworthy that WTO law is for maintaining interactional legal trade obligations and facilitating the legal interactions of states and non-state actors in open settings.
Mr Abdulmalik Altamimi
University of Leeds
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This page is a summary of: An Interactional World Trade Law, International Community Law Review, October 2016, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/18719732-12341329.
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