This article provides new insight to regime shifting and regime complexes through one of the first detailed analysis of the regime shift in intellectual property law making and enforcement from the World Trade Organization to international investment law. Unlike prior cases of regime shifting...

This article considers reform for the World Trade Organization (WTO) primarily through a review of the book Behind the Scenes at the WTO: The Real World of Trade Negotiations/The Lesson of Cancun (Fatouma Jawara and Aileen Kwa), which exposes how the trade negotiation process makes it possible...

In this Brenden Brown Lecture delivered at Loyola New Orleans Law School in April, 2011, I address how imported foods often produced under heavy subsidization are quickly displacing locally grown subsistence foods in poor countries. As a result, local peoples in many countries have lost their...

There has been relatively little written applying the insights of legal realism to international law, particularly international economic law. Professor Gregory Shaffer has admirably filled his gap in his excellent book, Defending Interests: Public-Private Partnerships in WTO Litigation. In my...