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2004

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The Law In Action At The Wto, Spencer Weber Waller Sep 2004

The Law In Action At The Wto, Spencer Weber Waller

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This review of Gregory Shaffer's new book "Defending Interests: Private-Public Partnerships in WTO Litigation" argues that Shaffer has made an important contribution to the field of international economic law. Shaffer does this by using the insights of legal realism and strong empirical work to illustrate "the law in action" rather than "the law on the books" in terms of how international trade cases in the WTO are actually generated and resolved.