Equity and Equitable Principles in the World Trade Organization

Dr Anastasios Gourgourinis is Lecturer in Public International Law at the Faculty of Law of the National and　 Kapodistrian University of Athens, specializing in International Economic Law. He is also a Research Fellow at the Academy of Athens. He holds an LL.B. and an LL.M from the Faculty of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, as well as an LL.M. (awarded with Distinction) and a Ph.D. from University College London. He has served in the past as Special Legal Advisor at Greece’s Ministry for Development and Competitiveness, and the Ministry of State, advising on issues pertaining to investment, trade and state aid. Currently, he practises with the Athens Bar in Greece.

• 1. WTO Adjudication and the Normativity of Equity in International Law 2. The Applicability of Equity And Equitable Principles in WTO Adjudication 3. The Applications of Equity And Equitable Principles in WTO Adjudication 4. Equity and Equitable Principles as Interstitial Norms in WTO Adjudication 5. The Inter-Systemic Operation of Equity In WTO Adjudication as a ‘Negative Catalyst’

"Equity and Equitable Principles in the World Trade Organization can leave no doubt of the author’s impressive skill. The author commands not only the detail but also the breadth of trade law and general international law, matched by a precise analysis of the underlying logic of the legal reasoning found in a plethora of decisions."Gregory Messenger, University of Liverpool, Journal of World Investment & Trade