Introduction

Gregory Shaffer, Defending Interests: Public-Private Partnerships in WTO Litigation, Brookings Institution, Washington 2003, ISBN 0-8157-76830-9, 227 pages, includes index, bibliography and extensive appendices (WTO cases). Most international economic lawyers will share the (legally correct) view that the law of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is developed in a purely intergovernmental process, quite in contrast to investment law where private investors can now sue - and do sue - government before international arbitral tribunals. We acknowledge that the process of ...