This Article is a regional chapter in the newly launched European Yearbook of International Economic Law. It provides a survey of the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), of the participation of MENA states in the World Trade Organization, of bilateral trade agreements...

This Article presents a novel theory of the political economy of transnational crime control, answering three consecutive questions. First, why does crime travel across national borders? The Article demonstrates that in the globalized economy, profit-driven crime (e.g., money laundering, drug...

This article generally addresses the interrelationship between international trade regulation, the international protection of intellectual property rights, and the protection and promotion of cultural diversity. The main themes explored will be the binary notions of conflict and...

This paper asks whether the model of international labour migration regulation found in the WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) Mode 4 conforms to principles of global justice. To answer this question on the backdrop of the complex set of policy considerations relating to labour...

The arcane distinction between rules, exceptions and autonomous rights has troubled WTO dispute settlement since its earliest days, primarily with respect to procedural burden-of-proof questions. Yet in its report, the EC-Biotech panel relied on a techno-textual understanding of this distinction...