Customer Rating: Summary: Journal of World Trade review Comment: To my knowledge, Professor Benitah's book is the first of its kind to try to provide a comprehensive methodology with which not just to understand what the law is, but also why it is the way it is. The innovative theory of "attenuation of entitlements" runs throughout this book as a kind of explanatory tool which helps the reader to make sense of substantive as well as procedural rules applicable to the subject of subsidies. By this, the author has succeeded in making his book a resource no one interested in the field of international economic law-whether as a student, a practitioner or academic-can afford to work without.It does not just provide a consistent and powerful analytical tool to understand the subject of subsidies; it also makes the reader think and appreciate how competing domestic and global political-economic interests interact in shaping the evolution of subsidies regulation so far and into the future.
Journal of World Trade, June 2002 issue, Melaku Geboye Desta, CEPMLP, University of Dundee.
Customer Rating: Summary: new journal review Comment: Any library collection specializing in trade matters should include this fresh account of the world of subsidies, and its global impact in the GATT/WTO context. This well-conceived, technical but readable, and quite authoritative analysis of the law of subsidies will be an important adjunct to any academic course or law practice...
Newsletter UN21 Interest Group of the American Society of International Law, issue 25, June 2002.
Customer Rating: Summary: Reviews and testimonials Comment: "Professor Benitah's book deeply renews the analysis of the international economic law of subsidies in the multilateral commercial system" Thiebaut Flory, University Paris XII, European Chair Jean Monnet.
"..a fascinating analysis of international economic law and of the theory of law. .... this book invites us to a renewed analysis of the role of the `judge' in this painful period of globalization of the world economy " Laurence Boy, Professor, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Revue Internationale de Droit Economique (1999/I)
" One cannot deny the importance.... of this book" Joel J Robichaud , Canadian Yearbook of International Law (1998)
" The innovative approach of this book offers to the reader a thorough analysis of the legal treatment of subsidies under the GATT/WTO system." P. Martin-Bidou, Revue Generale de Droit International Public, (Tome 103/1999/1)
"An in-depth analysis of a significant issue of International Economic Law" Armand de Mestral, McGill University, Canada.
" The approach of this book is innovative and throws an unexpected light on rules or decisions which one believed known. This setting in context is extremely interesting and, without inevitably agreeing with all interpretations of the author, the expert will discover in this book a stimulating vision, very surprising sometimes, which should prove to be very fruitful." J.-F. Abgrall, Ministry of International Affairs, Quebec; Director-General of Commercial Policy during the Uruguay Round
" Written clearly, this book is doubly original..." Revue du Marche Commun et de l'Union Europeenne (no 435, February 2000)
This work on the law of subsidies has been long-awaited by many actors in international trade. With its introduction of the concept of "attenuation" of entitlement, Marc Benitah's analysis alters the understanding of the international economic law of subsidies and its future invocation and jurisprudence. The issue of subsidies is a predominant theme in international economic law, and a consistent approach to the legal treatment of subsidies is urgently needed. In Professor Benitah's view, the answer lies in the recognition that entitlements granted to a party seeking to defend itself against the "adverse effects" of subsidies must be "attenuated" in order to avoid undesirable economic and social consequences. In the various techniques of attenuation - thoroughly described and analyzed in this book - may be found the unifying thread on which a logical, coherent law of subsidies may be strung.
