An examination of some of the recent decisions of the panels and Appellate Body demonstrates the continuing evolution of WTO trade rules through traditional processes of treaty interpretation, reference to earlier jurisprudence and judicial reasoning. The quasi-judicial development of the law in...

Although multilateral rules regulating subsidies on the basis of their effects rather than their classification have existed since the end of the Tokyo Round, the WTO dispute over implementation of the rulings in the US Cotton case is only the second time (the first time being the Follow Up to...

The Doha Round WTO negotiation on agricultural trade has been difficult from the beginning. The author expresses the view that the current state of the negotiations as reflected in the draft modalities agreement is completely unsatisfactory. The draft agreement would achieve very modest...

After years of debate, the issues of whether and where (i.e. under which legal element) regulatory purposes should be considered under Article III:2 and Article III:4 of the GATT – the most invoked provisions of the National Treatment rule – remain unsolved. This article submits that the...

This Article observes that the recent jurisprudence between international trade and investment law is converging in a way which the free market value and public interests are duly reconciled. The Article contends that such jurisprudential convergence is structurally preordained yet historically...