Trade Law Experienced: Pottering About in the GATT and WTO

This is a selection of articles published in English by Jacques H.J. Bourgeois, who as former official of the European Commission and now as a practicing lawyer dealt with GATT and WTO and EU trade policy matters and who also managed to lecture and teach on these matters. The selected articles cover various topics related to WTO law, ranging from some principles of WTO law, the WTO dispute settlement system as seen from the Bar, how it operated in one particular area, the use of a “waiver” in the area of TRIPs and health, to whether direct taxation is covered by the WTO, and to connected EC trade policy aspects, such as powers, the effect of WTO law in the EC legal system, the EC's first regulation on “illicit trade practices”, the relationship between EC trade policy and other policies and to the cost and benefits of EC trade measures.