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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Restoring Trust in Trade: Liber Amicorum in Honour of Peter Van den Bossche by Edited by Denise Prevost Edited by Iveta Alexovicova Edited by Jens Hillebrand Pohl
As a scholar counsellor of the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat and between 2009 and 2017 a member of the WTO Appellate Body Peter Van den Bossche has addressed the challenges faced by the international trade regime and has tirelessly promoted trust in the multilateral governance model. This Liber Amicorum honours his contribution to the development of a ‘trustworthy’ rules-based multilateral trading system which has left a lasting legacy.In this timely book leading experts and friends of Peter Van den Bossche including his mentors colleagues and PhD candidates come together to pay tribute to his work by exploring from a legal perspective what can be done to restore trust in trade focusing on: (1) ensuring a robust institutional framework that promotes rule of law over power politics; (2) safeguarding the integrity and effectiveness of trade dispute settlement; and (3) ensuring that substantive international trade rules appropriately balance trade and non-trade interests.