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Public International Law And The Wto: A Reckoning Of Legal Positivism And Neoliberalism, S. G. Sreejith
Public International Law And The Wto: A Reckoning Of Legal Positivism And Neoliberalism, S. G. Sreejith
San Diego International Law Journal
This Article proceeds in five parts. In part one, I review the scholarly skepticism as to how far international law is law in the "hard" sense and show that this skepticism has always permeated the discipline. In part two, I go on to examine what has prompted contemporary scholarship to credit the WTO with helping international law grow out of the "thin" normativity often attributed to it. The analysis suggests that certain features of legal positivism customarily associated with law in its strict sense, which were alleged to be lacking in international law, are found in the institutional apparatus of …