Bulletin n. 2/2016
December 2016
INDICE
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Andrew D. Mitchell, Tania Voon
    Professor John H. Jackson: The WTO and Public International Law
    in Journal of International Economic Law , Volume 19 Issue 2 ,  2016 ,  383-385
    In reading and re-reading just some of Professor John H. Jackson’s extensive works shedding light on the relationship between the World Trade Organization (WTO) and general international law, we have discovered his voice again. Within a few sentences, the elegance of his writing, the immediacy of his ideas, the breadth and depth of his analysis, all forcefully proclaim his significance to the field of international economic law, with no need to examine his long and impressive biography and bibliography. In those circumstances, we ourselves write with trepidation. It seems unfair to comment at all, with no opportunity for an ‘author’s response’.1 We first met Professor Jackson at Georgetown Law in 2003, when he had nearly half a century of groundbreaking contributions to the field behind him and we were but lowly PhD candidates having seriously turned our minds to the WTO only a few years before (under the watchful eye of Professor Joseph HH Weiler). Professor Jackson welcomed us as Visiting Scholars to the Institute of International Economic Law with an astonishing degree of warmth and personal and professional kindness, although perhaps less astonishing to anyone who knew him or to the hundreds of students and academics he mentored before and since. Our short summer visit led to continued interactions, …
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