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7 World Trade Rev. iii (2008)

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World Trade Review (2008), 7 1, / Printedln the lnited Kingdom
© Lance Liebman doi:10.1017IS1474745608003777

Foreword



This volume, containing analyses of decisions rendered by the adjudicating
bodies of the World Trade Organization in 2004 and 2005, is The American
Law Institute's most recent contribution in its continuing examination of the de-
veloping law of world trade. As with our previously published volumes analyzing
decisions rendered from 2001 through 2003, each study is the joint work of a
lawyer and an economist, and each study has been subjected to additional review
and analysis by the other contributors and by an international group of experts at
an invitational conference in Geneva in March 2007. The studies are the work of
the individual authors and not of The American Law Institute.
  With five years of WTO case law studies now to our credit, we have begun the
second phase of our world trade work, seeking to draft general principles of world
trade law based on that developing body of case law. The Chief Reporters for
this phase are Henrik Horn of Stockholm University and Petros Mavroidis of the
University of Neuchdtel and of Columbia University School of Law. We also hope
to continue our reporting and analysis of individual WTO decisions.
  We are grateful to the economists and lawyers who contributed the studies in
this volume and to those who reviewed and constructively criticized their earlier
drafts. We also express our appreciation to the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius
Foundation and the Milton and Miriam Handler Foundation for their continued
and generous financial support of this endeavor.
                                                              LANCE LIEBMAN
                                                                     Director
                                                  The American Law Institute