EU and the WTO

Grainne de Burca is Professor of Law, Fordham Law School, New York. Joanne Scott is Professor of European Law at University College, London.

• The impact of the WTO on EU decision-making, Grainne de Burca and Joanne Scott; the EU and the WTO - constitutionalism in a new key, Neil Walker; the WTO and the EU - some constitutional comparisons, Peter Holmes; European and international constitutional law - time for promoting "cosmopolitan democracy" in the WTO, Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann; fundamental right or political whim? WTO law and the European court of justice, Steve Peers; collision, co-existence or co-operation? Prospects for the relationship between WTO law and European Union law, Armin von Bogdandy and Tilman Makatsch; neutrality or discrimination? the WTO, the EU and external trade, Marise Cremona; the WTO and EU distributive policy -the case of regional promotion and assistance, Thomas Cottier and Christophe Germann; constitutional concepts for free trade in services, Piet Eeckhout; trade in culture - international legal regimes and EU constitutional values, Bruno de Witte; is there any such thing as free or fair trade? a constitutional analysis of the impact of international trade on the European social model, Miguel Poiares Maduro; the WTO impact on internal regulations - a case study of the Canada-EC asbestos dispute, Rob Howse and Elisabeth Tuerk.

...the various chapters provide a useful and well-informed account of the evolution of EU-WTO relations, even for those who find constitutionalisation a distant horizon. Joanna Gomula, University of London Europarttslig Tidskrift October 2001 All in all, this is a very important book on a very important issue for international lawyers; for academics with a special interest in international economic law (or, more modestly, in WTO law) it is essential reading. Peter Hilpold, University of Innsbruck European Journal of International Law June 2003