"Edmond McGovern's January 2015 update to International Trade Regulation makes this outstanding book even more useful for anyone with an interest in international trade regulation. In 1995, Mr. McGovern first captured the enormous changes to the international trade regulation system rendered by the Uruguay Round agreements in his first edition of International Trade Regulation. Since that time, he has been an avid student of the application and implementation of those agreements through the dispute settlement process of the World Trade Organization ("WTO"). We benefit from that scholarship in his 2015 update, which not only explains the organizational and doctrinal underpinnings of the international trade regulation system, but also analyzes how the system works in the context of the dispute settlement process for each of the main areas addressed: trade in goods, trade in services, and intellectual property. With a detailed table of contents and index, the book is an exceptionally handy research tool for any student or practitioner of international trade regulation."
Global Trade and Customs Journal

"... this is the single most comprehensive compilation of multilateral trade agreements, the GATT/WTO jurisprudence coupled with the author's understanding and interpretation of how the WTO edifice works in practice.

... this is a book for practitioners of any sort: University professors and students, lawyers and their clients, national delegations and international secretariats. In short, everybody with an interest in international trade regulation (in world integration, more generally) must possess this unique volume."
Journal of World Trade

"McGovern's ‘International Trade Regulation’ is a most useful, most convincing and most impressive work on WTO/GATT law. Anyone working in the field of international trade law and practice is well advised to consult McGovern's work on any legal question concerning this complex and important field of international law."
German Yearbook of International Law

"[C]e commentaire rendra les plus grands services à ceux qui souhaiteront prendre connaissance du nouveau droit des échanges internationaux."
Annuaire Français de Droit International

International Trade Regulation was previously published as a hardback volume (which also included sections on US and EC law). This is what reviewers had to say about it:

"This is the first major book to systematically deal with GATT and related trade issues since the completion of the Tokyo Round Negotiations in 1979. Indeed, the wealth of detail and the accuracy of information is astonishing for a book of this scope, published so soon after the completion of that negotiation. The diligence, mastery of detail, and prodigious effort of the author is manifest."
Prof. John Jackson, Common Market Law Review

"All concerned with the puzzle of GATT will be eager to obtain this excellent work... This is the ideal bedside book of the international trade expert."
Journal of World Trade Law

"This excellent, clearly written and presented account of the legal bases of trade..." Development Policy Review

"Par la masse de documents qu'il rassemble et l'éffort de systématisation qui l'anime, cet ouvrage est le plus considérable qui ait paru sur le sujet depuis l'achèvement de la négociation de Tokyo en 1979. C'ést à coup sûr le meilleur guide pour éviter au lecteur de se perdre dans le dédale de la reglementation du commerce international."
Rev. générale de droit international public

"Completed just before the Uruguay Round began, the book remains a timely text because of its encyclopedic examination of the structure and policies and differing philosophies of international trade regulation."
American Journal of International Law