The Constitutionalization of the World Trade Organization: Legitimacy, Democracy, and Community in the International Trading System

The Constitutionalization of the World Trade Organization: Legitimacy, Democracy, and Community in the International Trading System

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-296

  Cass, Deborah Z ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Constitutionalism; Democratic ideas; Institutional forms; Management techniques; Quasi judicial power; Rights discourse; Trading democracy; World trading system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920931430     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199285846.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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