Following is the text of a message that I just received from the American Law Institute. This is an excellent project, and Petros Mavroidis and Henrik Horn are to be congratulated, along with the ALI, for undertaking it.
We wish to inform you that the case analyses thus far resulting from the American Law Institute’s project on world trade law are now accessible on our website (www.ali.org) for free download. In these papers, the WTO decisions from 2001, 2002, and 2003 are each jointly evaluated by an expert in trade law and an expert in international economics. According to our records you are or have expressed interest in this Institute project. The papers are located in the “Projects” section of ALI’s new website; or you can use this direct link to the page for the WTO project.
The documents on our website are in the form in which they were submitted to Cambridge University Press, and thus the final published texts may contain editing or additional material not found in the online manuscripts. The CUP books – which in the spring will include a single softcover volume containing all three books – are available for purchase from CUP’s website. Cambridge University Press
Many of those receiving this email are on the ALI Members Consultative Group for the project. That group will likely have its initial meeting when the Reporters are further along in the drafting of Principles of Trade Law; that work is just now beginning. We are at the same time continuing to produce papers on the WTO cases and anticipate publication of the next set of case analyses, on selected cases from 2004 and 2005, by the end of this year.
We hope that the free online availability of the 2001, 2002, and 2003 case analyses will give the project more visibility and prominence. The work is excellent and deserves to reach all corners of the globe. You are encouraged to share the direct link to the papers with colleagues and others whom you think will be interested in them.
