Sovereignty, the WTO, and Changing Fundamentals of International Law by John H. Jackson Review

The last book of Professor John H. Jackson, distinguished
professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, and
current director of the Institute of International Economic
Law at that same school, compiles a series of lectures
Professor Jackson delivered at the University of Cambridge’s
Lauterpatch Research Centre, and they summarize the
evident existing tension between the concepts of sovereignty
and international economic relations (including thereby the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade “GATT”, the World
Trade Organization, dispute settlement mechanisms, etc.)
regulated and legally dealt with by what is known today as
International Economic Law and the bases and foundations
of Public International Law. Professor Jackson’s last book is
not as large and ample as his pivotal work entitled “Legal Problems of International Economic Relations”, but it deals
– masterly – with the juridical, philosophical and legal
problems posed today by the effort to better understand
Public International Law.