The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization

Peter Van den Bossche is Member of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization since 2009. He is Professor of International Economic Law at Maastricht University, The Netherlands, and visiting professor at the College of Europe, Bruges; the World Trade Institute, Berne; the University of Barcelona; and the China-EU School of Law, Beijing. From 1997 to 2001, he was counsellor at the Appellate Body Secretariat and in 2001 served as Acting Director of the Secretariat. In the early 1990s, he worked as référendaire at the European Court of Justice. He studied law at the University of Antwerp (Lic.jur.), the University of Michigan (LL.M.) and the European University Institute, Florence (PhD). Werner Zdouc is Director of the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat since 2006. Mr Zdouc obtained a law degree from the University of Graz in Austria. He then went on to earn a PhD from the University of St Gallen in Switzerland, and afterwards an LL.M. from Michigan Law School. Mr Zdouc joined the WTO Legal Affairs Division in 1995. He moved to the Appellate Body Secretariat in 2001. Currently, he is also a lecturer and visiting professor for international trade law at Vienna Economic University and the University of Barcelona. From 1987 to 1989 he worked for governmental and non-governmental development aid organisations.

1. International trade and law of the WTO; 2. The World Trade Organization; 3. WTO Dispute Settlement; 4. Most favoured nation treatment; 5. National treatment; 6. Tariff barriers; 7. Non-tariff barriers; 8. General and security exceptions; 9. Economic emergency exceptions; 10. Regional trade exceptions; 11. Dumping; 12. Subsidies; 13. Technical barriers to trade; 14. Sanitary and phytosanitary measures; 15. Intellectual property rights; 16. Future challenges to the WTO and the multilateral trade system.