Conclusion, Ch.27 Law, Culture, and Values in the WTO — Gazing into the Crystal Ball
Joseph HH Weiler
From: The Oxford Handbook of International Trade Law
Edited By: Daniel Bethlehem, Donald McRae, Rodney Neufeld, Isabelle Van Damme
Considering the ‘Future of the WTO’ is a staple of the literature. From its very conception back in the 1940s as the ‘would-be’ International Trade Organization (ITO), through its ‘doctor assisted’ birth as the GATT 1947 employing the Protocol of Provisional Application (a ‘provisional’ application which lasted a full 47 years), through the further agonies of successive ‘Rounds’ culminating in the Uruguay Round and the compromises of the Marrakesh Agreement and bringing us to the present on-again-off-again trials and tribulations of Doha, the WTO/GATT has always...
