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The International Legal System in Quest of Equity and Universality / L’ordre juridique international, un système en quête d’équité et universalité: liber amicorum Georges Abi-Saab. Edited by Laurence Boisson de Chazournes and Vera Gowlland-Debbas. The Hague, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers (co-publication with the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, March 2001). 849 pp. Euros 235.00 / US $205.00 / GB £143.00

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Johannes van Aggelen*
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1 de Chazournes, Laurence Boisson and Gowlland-Debbas, Vera, eds., The International Legal System in Quest of Equity and Universality / L’ordre juridique international, un système en quête d’équité et universalité: liber amicorum Georges Abi-Saab (The Hague, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers (co-publication with the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva), March 2001).Google Scholar

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30 Marrakech Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, April 15, 1994, 33 I.L.M. 15 (1994).

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