TRUTH ABOUT TRADE: REFLECTIONS ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE & LAW

In Truth About Trade, international scholar, jurist, statesman, and activist James Bacchus offers a thought-provoking collection of some of the essays he has written on international trade and international law since he completed his tenure as one of the founders and twice the chairman of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The breadth of these essays ranges from his visionary proposals for expanding world trade and enhancing the international rule of law by modernizing the WTO-based multilateral world trading system, to his thoughts on the abhorrence and illegality of torture and on the necessity of courage in defense of human freedom. Written as public commentary during the past two decades, these essays, because of the ideas and the observations they contain, remain highly relevant to the international debate today. In his thinking about how best we should shape the legal framework of the world, the author remains ahead of his time.

Contents:

• Truth About Trade: Dispelling the Beltway Myths About the World Trade Organization
• Biden and Trade at Year One: The Reign of Polite Protectionism
• Reviving the WTO: Five Priorities for Liberalization
• Some But Not (Yet) All: Plurilateral Agreements and the Future of the World Trade Organization
• The High Price of Buying American: The Harms of Domestic Content Mandates
• Democrats and Trade: A Pro-Trade Policy for the Democratic Party
• The Black Hole of National Security: Striking the Right Balance for the National Security Exception in International Trade
• Might Unmakes Right: The American Assault on the Rule of Law in World Trade
• The Digital Decide: How to Agree on WTO Rules for Digital Trade
• TRIPS-Past to TRIPS-Plus: Upholding the Balance Between Exclusivity and Access
• A Common Gauge: Harmonization and International Law
• Appellators: The Quest for the Meaning of And/Or
• The Garden
• Turning to Tacitus

Readership: Academic and other specialists in international trade and international law.

Key Features:

• Offers visionary recommendations for improving international trade law and the international trading system from one of the jurists who has contributed the most in recent decades to international law by upholding the international rule of law in world trade