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4 World Trade Rev. 3 (2005)

handle is hein.journals/wtradev4 and id is 1 raw text is: World Trade Review (2005), 4. 1, 3-5 Prited in the United Kgaldom © RichardBlackhurstandPetros C Mavroid doi:10.10171S147474560500220X A tribute to Robert E. Hudec RICHARD BLACKHURST Member of the Editorial Board PETROS C. MAVROIDIS Guest Editor and Member of Editorial Board Bob Hudec had the great good fortune to witness - and make important con- tributions to - the full evolution of the focus of his life's work, namely the GATT/ WTO legal system. When he began, the GATT had what he called a 'diplomat's jurisprudence', a state of affairs perhaps best exemplified by the fact that the member countries did not allow the Secretariat to have a formal Legal Division (or even a formal legal advisor) until 1983, 35 years after the GATT was estab- lished (the IMF had a General Counsel and a Legal Division the day it opened for business). By the 1980s the authority of legal obligations was playing a much more important role. Then, with the successful conclusion of the Uruguay Round, came the bold changes we are living with today: the automatic right to bring legal complaints before a dispute settlement tribunal, automatically binding legal rulings, appellate review, and an automatic right to impose retaliatory trade sanctions when the defendant government fails to comply with a legal ruling. In his contribution to this volume T. N. Srinivasan captures the academic life of Bob Hudec like no one else before: an excellent economist among lawyers, and an outstanding lawyer among economists. Hudec was driven by an ever-growing interest to add to his analytical skills by drawing on 'neighbouring' fields. The product of his cooperation with economists and political scientists has found its way into numerous well-known publications. His strong belief in the importance of drawing on contributions from different disciplines when dealing with trade issues made him an early friend and supporter of this journal, with its multidisciplinary orientation. He contributed an important review article to the second issue and was always a willing and insightful referee. His legacy is also evident in our regular feature, the 'Dispute settlement corner', which reprints in each issue an article from an American Law Institute project in which case law from adjudicating bodies of the WTO is jointly evaluated by a lawyer and an economist. Non-discrimination is one of the many areas that attracted his interest. This principle is usually taken for granted by most lawyers, but viewed with scepticism by many economists. Hudec's thinking on the issue was very much influenced by economic analysis. His starting point, however, was the merits of the existing regulatory response to the question: 'How to liberalize trade on a contractual 3

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