Reading List

Week 1 - The Origins and Architecture of the WTO

Primary Texts
Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, esp Preamble and
Articles II, III, IV, VI, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XV, and XVI

Essential Reading
Jackson, ‘The Evolution of the World Trading System – Legal and Institutional
Context’, in The Oxford Handbook on International Trade Law (OUP, 2009), 30-53
Rodrik,'How Far Will International Economic Integration Go?' (2000) 14 Journal of
Economic Perspectives 177 (fulltext available electronically through library).

Further Reading
Trade Theory and Policy

Bagwell, Kyle & Robert W. Staiger, "The World Trade Organization: Theory and
Practice" (2010) 2 Annual Review of Economics 223-56
Documentary: Darwin’s Nightmare, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424024/
Trebilcock, Howse, and Eliason, The Regulation of International Trade, 4th ed,
Chapter 1, 1-28.
Irwin, Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade (1996).
Chang, Kicking Away the Ladder, Chapter 2.
Stiglitz and Charlton, Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development
(Oxford, 2005).
Unger, Free Trade Re-imagined (2007) (see also Lang, ‘The Thirteenth Chime:
Experimentalism and the Global Economy’ (2008) 71(6) Modern Law Review 984-
1000)
Winters et al, ‘Trade Liberalization and Poverty: The Evidence So Far’ (2004) 42(1)
Journal of Economic Literature 72–115.
Nicita and Zarrilli, 'Trade Policy and Gender – Unfolding the Links' (2010) 44 Journal
of World Trade 203.
Alan O. Sykes, ‘Comparative Advantage and the Normative Economics of International Trade
Policy’ (1998) 1 Journal of International Economic Law 49

The WTO as an Institution

 Gardner, Richard N., "The Bretton Woods-GATT System after Sixty-Five Years: A
Balance Sheet of Success and Failure" (2008) 47(1) Columbia Journal of
Transnational Law 31-71.
Demaret, Paul, "The Metamorphoses of the GATT: From the Havana Charter to the
World Trade Organization" (1996) 34 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 123-71.
Pauwelyn, Joost, "The Transformation of World Trade" (2005) 104(1) Michigan Law
Review 1-65.
Ford, Jane, "A Social Theory of Trade Regime Change: GATT to WTO" (2002)
4(3) International Studies Review 115-38.
Regan, Donald H., "What Are Trade Agreements For? Two Conflicting Stories Told
By Economists, with a Lesson for Lawyers" (2006) 9(4) Journal of International
Economic Law 951-88 (fulltext available through LSE library)
Lang, World Trade Law after Neoliberalism (OUP, 2011) Chaps 7-10.
Cass, The Constitutionalization of the World Trade Organization (2005) Chapter 1.
Steinberg, 'In the Shadow of Law or Power? Consensus-Based Bargaining and
Outcomes in the GATT/WTO' (2002) 56(2) International Organization 339-374
Dunoff, ‘The Misguided Debate over NGO Participation at the WTO’ (1998) 1:3
Journal of International Economic Law 433.
Howse, 'From Politics to Technocracy - and Back Again: The Fate of the Multilateral
Trading Regime’ (2002) 96(1) American Journal of International Law 96.
Howse, ‘How to Begin to Think about the Democratic Deficit at the WTO’ in Griller
(ed) International Economic Governance and Non-Economic Concerns: new
Challenges for the International Legal Order (2003) 79.
Tijmes-Lhl, ‘Consensus and Majority Voting in the WTO’ (2009) 8(3) Wold Trade
Review 417.
Ruggie, ‘International Regimes, Transactions and Change: Embedded Liberalism in
the Postwar Economic Order’ (1982) 36 International Organization 379.
Rose, ‘Do We Really Know that the WTO Increases Trade?’ (2004) 94 American
Economic Review.

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