The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization: Text, Cases and Materials. This item is unavailable.The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization: Text, Cases and Materials

This fully updated edition of Van den Bossche and Zdouc's market-leading textbook is required reading for World Trade Organization law students and practitioners.

Peter Van den Bossche is Member of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization since 2009 and served as its Chair in 2015. He is Director of Studies and Professor of International Economic Law at the World Trade Institute of the Universität Bern, Switzerland. He is a visiting Professor at the Collège d'Europe, Belgium; Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands; the Universitat de Barcelona and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador. From 1997 to 2001, he was counsellor at the Appellate Body Secretariat, and in 2001 served as Acting Director of the Secretariat. In the early 1990s, he worked as référendaire at the European Court of Justice. He studied law at the Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium (Lic. jur.), the University of Michigan (LL.M.) and the European University Institute, Florence (Ph.D.).

Werner Zdouc has been Director of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Appellate Body Secretariat since 2006. He obtained a law degree from Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria and then went on to earn an LL.M. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from Universität St. Gallen, Switzerland. Dr Zdouc joined the WTO Legal Affairs Division in 1995 and the Appellate Body Secretariat in 2001. From 2008–09 he chaired the WTO Joint Advisory Committee to the Director-General. He has been a lecturer and visiting Professor at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Vienna, the Universität St. Gallen, Switzerland, Universität Zürich, Universitat de Barcelona, The University of Seoul, Shanghai University and at the Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement, Geneva. From 1987 to 1989, he worked for governmental and non-governmental development aid organizations in Austria and Latin America.