This article examines how WTO rules could support business acting responsibly in nations with inadequate governance. The article also discuses how WTO rules hamper global corporate social responsibility. In particular the author examines social labeling, procurement policies, CSR clauses, and...

This article uses the day to day operations of the WTO (trade negotiations, trade waivers, acessions, trade policy reviews) to discuss how human rights issues are seeping into the work of the WTO. The author also discusses how the WTO may promote particular human rights such as public...

One way to jumpstart WTO talks is to rethink how we protect intellectual property. Many analysts now fear the current approach hampers technological progress and may lead to information oligopolies. This article presents a grand bargain on IPR to help stimulate global development

This article examines the signals that US public policy sends to global market actors regarding their social and environmental practices. The United States Government does not mandate that US based firms follow US social and environmental law in foreign markets. However, because many developing...

This article examines how the United States and the European Union (the EU) use trade agreements to both advance and restrict the free flow of information, and to promote Internet freedom. This issue is not new: in the 1980s, with the advent of faster computers, software and satellites,...

Herein, we discuss how trade policies, agreements, bans and strategies could affect Internet openness, Internet governance, and Internet freedom in the U.S. EU and Canada. We do not discuss telecommunications or e-commerce issues. We note that despite the shared goal of promoting internet...

In this article, we examine the trade and national security spillovers of U.S. and EU approaches to data protection. Both governments want to protect the privacy of citizens moving information through the cloud, ensure that information flows smoothly across the Atlantic and enable government...

Scholars and policymakers have long believed that the interdependence encouraged by trade relations encourages trust and peaceful relations. In this article, we examine the role of the GATT/WTO (and the trade it supposedly encourages) in conflict zones. We show that policymakers have used...

This policy brief examines how the US, the EU and Canada use trade policies to govern the Internet at home and across borders. The three trade giants use trade agreements to encourage e-commerce, reduce online barriers to trade, and to develop shared policies in a world where technology is...

This article examines the objectives and trade strategies policymakers are using when they use trade agreements to govern the Internet. Often when we use the Internet we are trading. I show that although policymakers use the rhetoric of Internet freedom, they are most concerned about maintaining...