Intellectual property rights--copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, and related rights--have become increasingly important with the advent of increased international trade, global and knowledge-based economy and fast developing technology. A strong intellectual property rights regime...

BS Chimni, Developing countries and the GATT/WTO system : some reflections on the idea of free trade and the Doha round trade negotiations -- Jeffrey L. Dunoff, Dysfunction, diversion, and the debate over preferences : (how) do preferential trade policies work? -- J. Michael Finger, Trade and...

Bringing together articles by some of the leading policy-makers, including previous WTO Director-Generals, practitioners, scholars of international trade law, government officials, international civil servants, members of the WTO Appellate Body, and judges from a number of international...