Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Foreword by E. THOMAS SULLIVAN
- Introduction: An overview of the volume
- Part I The constitutional developments of international trade law
- 1 Sovereignty, subsidiarity, and separation of powers: The high-wire balancing act of globalization
- 2 Constitutionalism and WTO law: From a state-centered approach towards a human rights approach in international economic law
- 3 WTO decision-making: Is it reformable?
- 4 Some institutional issues presently before the WTO
- 5 Domestic regulation and international trade: Where's the race? Lessons from telecommunications and export controls
- Part II The scope of international trade law: Adding new subjects and restructuring old ones
- Part III Legal relations between developed and developing countries
- Part IV The operation of the WTO dispute settlement procedure
- Bibliography of works by ROBERT E. HUDEC
- Index
1 - Sovereignty, subsidiarity, and separation of powers: The high-wire balancing act of globalization
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Foreword by E. THOMAS SULLIVAN
- Introduction: An overview of the volume
- Part I The constitutional developments of international trade law
- 1 Sovereignty, subsidiarity, and separation of powers: The high-wire balancing act of globalization
- 2 Constitutionalism and WTO law: From a state-centered approach towards a human rights approach in international economic law
- 3 WTO decision-making: Is it reformable?
- 4 Some institutional issues presently before the WTO
- 5 Domestic regulation and international trade: Where's the race? Lessons from telecommunications and export controls
- Part II The scope of international trade law: Adding new subjects and restructuring old ones
- Part III Legal relations between developed and developing countries
- Part IV The operation of the WTO dispute settlement procedure
- Bibliography of works by ROBERT E. HUDEC
- Index
Summary
Introduction
I am delighted and honored to be able to participate in this volume, assembled to express appreciation of the lifetime achievements of Professor Robert Hudec. Bob and I have been friends and professional collaborators and protagonists for so many decades now that I do not want to explain it in too great detail. However, there is no question that his enormous output of research, writing, and thinking has made a substantial contribution to world order and to the burgeoning new subject of international economic law. I hope my tentative writing in this manuscript will do honor to Professor Hudec's accomplishments.
The overall theme of this volume is “Transcending the Ostensible,” and clearly the core subject of the book relates to the international economic system, particularly the trading system and related subjects. From the point of view of international economic law, therefore, the terrain is extraordinarily broad. What I plan to do here is to focus on a subject that is even broader, that has enormous implications for international economic law, but also other parts of international law, and, in doing so, I will try to relate that subject to the current problems of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Although it may not be completely obvious, my topic of “Sovereignty, subsidiarity, and separation of powers: the high wire balancing act of globalization” is in many ways at the center of a great deal of the current trade system diplomacy and jurisprudence development.
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- The Political Economy of International Trade LawEssays in Honor of Robert E. Hudec, pp. 13 - 31Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002
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