Free World Trade and the European Union

Der Band enthält die Beiträge zu einem Seminar über die WTO und die Europäische Union, das im Juni 1998 von der Europäischen Rechtsakademie Trier durchgeführt wurde. Inhalt: 1. Introduction: Pierre Pescatore: Free World Trade and the European Union - The Reconciliation of Interests and the Revision of Dispute Resolution Procedures in the Framework of the World Trade Organization (9-27). 2. General: Hervé Jouenjean: The New World Trade System and the Traditional EC Foreign Trade Policy (31-33); Olivier Prost: L'applicabilité et l'effet des lois de l'OMC dans le droit interne des Etats membres et communautaire (35-52). 3. The Dispute Settlement Procedure: William J. Davey: WTO Dispute Settlement (55-58); Bernhard Jansen: Selected Problem Areas in the Course of a Dispute Settlement Procedure (59-61); Jacques H. J. Bourgeois: The Gasoline, the Hormones and the Shrimps Cases in the Light of Procedural Law (63-75); Friedl Weiss: Optimising the Dispute Settlement Procedure (a European Position) (77-86); Daniel Brinza: Optimising the Dispute Settlement Procedure (an American Perspective) (87-89); Thanes Sucharikul: Free World Trade and the European Union - a Perspective from Thailand (91-93); Koichi Ito: The Dispute Settlement Mechanism in the WTO - a Japanese Perspective (95-97). 4. Free Trade Set Against other Public Interests: Richard Eglin: Environment, Labour, and Human Rights Concerns and the International Trading System (101-106); Jacques H. J. Bourgeois: The Gasoline, the Hormones and the Shrimps Cases in the Light of Substantive Law (107-120); David W. Leebron: Better Reconciliation of Interests in WTO Law: an American Position (121-129). 5. Further Perspectives: Jean-Louis Dewost: Synthèse: de nouveaux concepts pour réexaminer les accords? (133-135).