Isabel Feichtner is Assistant Professor of Law and Economics at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She also advises the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety on legal questions regarding the reform of International Environmental Governance.

• 1. Why study the WTO waiver?; Part I. The Flexibility Challenge in Public International Law and the WTO in Particular: 2. The flexibility challenge in public international law; 3. The WTO - public law of conflict management; Part II. The Practice and Law of Waivers: 4. The waiver power and practice under the GATT 1947 and in the WTO; 5. The law of waivers; Part III. The Potential of Waivers to Address the Flexibility Challenge in Public International Law: 6. The potential of the waiver as a flexibility device; 7. The politics of the waiver process; 8. Conclusion.

'This book is … both welcome and overdue.' Christopher A. Thomas, British Yearbook of International Law

Isabel Feichtner is Assistant Professor of Law and Economics at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She also advises the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety on legal questions regarding the reform of International Environmental Governance.

• 1. Why study the WTO waiver?; Part I. The Flexibility Challenge in Public International Law and the WTO in Particular: 2. The flexibility challenge in public international law; 3. The WTO - public law of conflict management; Part II. The Practice and Law of Waivers: 4. The waiver power and practice under the GATT 1947 and in the WTO; 5. The law of waivers; Part III. The Potential of Waivers to Address the Flexibility Challenge in Public International Law: 6. The potential of the waiver as a flexibility device; 7. The politics of the waiver process; 8. Conclusion.

'This book is … both welcome and overdue.' Christopher A. Thomas, British Yearbook of International Law

Isabel Feichtner is Assistant Professor of Law and Economics at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She also advises the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety on legal questions regarding the reform of International Environmental Governance.

• 1. Why study the WTO waiver?; Part I. The Flexibility Challenge in Public International Law and the WTO in Particular: 2. The flexibility challenge in public international law; 3. The WTO - public law of conflict management; Part II. The Practice and Law of Waivers: 4. The waiver power and practice under the GATT 1947 and in the WTO; 5. The law of waivers; Part III. The Potential of Waivers to Address the Flexibility Challenge in Public International Law: 6. The potential of the waiver as a flexibility device; 7. The politics of the waiver process; 8. Conclusion.

'This book is … both welcome and overdue.' Christopher A. Thomas, British Yearbook of International Law