International Trade in Services and Domestic Regulations: Necessity, Transparency and Regulatory Diversity

ISBN-13: 9780199533152 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 375 str.

Panagiotis Delimatsis

Opis

In 2005, the WTO Appellate body ruled that the United States' total prohibition on cross border gambling services was unlawful under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). The questions raised by the case - whether and how a government could block service provision on moral grounds - went to the heart of key controversies surrounding international economic law. How do you reconcile a liberal system of international trade in services with national governments' desire to protect social values through service regulation? How much control are the WTO members willing to transfer to the WTO? How much regulatory diversity can the traditional trading system withstand?

Recenzje

The book...embodies deep knowledge of WTO law...[and] offers a really valuable insight to the content of a myriad of working documents, conclusions, proposals etc. which...are largely unknown to the...public.

O autorze

Panagiotis Delimatsis is Senior Research Fellow at the World Trade Institute, University of Berne, Switzerland. Previously he has worked at the WTO Appellate Body secretariat, UNCTAD, and practised law in Greece.