Peter Van den Bossche was a Member of the Appellate Body of the WTO from 2009 to 2019, and served as its Chair in 2015. He is currently Director of Studies and Professor of International Economic Law at the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern, Switzerland. He serves as President of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) and is Editor of the World Trade Review. He is a visiting professor at the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium; Maastricht University, the Netherlands; the LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy; and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador. 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 a référendaire at the European Court of Justice. Peter Van den Bossche is the author (with Denise Prévost) of Essentials of WTO Law, 2nd edition (2021).

Zusammenfassung
Retaining its signature clarity and depth, this fully updated edition of the market-leading World Trade Organization (WTO) textbook covers both the institutional and substantive law of the WTO. The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization is required reading for all WTO law students and practitioners.

Inhalt

International trade and the 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; Index.