Defending Interests: Public-Private Partnerships in WTO Litigation

by Gregory C. Shaffer

Book Overview

This book examines the growing interaction between private enterprises and public officials to challenge foreign trade barriers. Building on more than one hundred interviews with former and current trade officials and private attorneys in the United States and Europe, Gregory Shaffer calls attention to the ways in which well-organized private parties are using the World Trade Organization's legal system to advance their own commercial ambitions,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815778317
• ISBN13: 9780815778318
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"