Equity and Equitable Principles in the World Trade Organization

Anastasios Gourgourinis was elected Lecturer in Public International Law, specializing in International Economic Law, at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Faculty of Law in July 2011, and is an advocate with the Athens Bar in Greece.He currently serves as a Special Legal Advisor for Strategic Investments at the Hellenic Ministry of Development, Competitiveness, Infrastructure, Transport and Networks, and is a Research Fellow at the Academy of Athens.

• 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