In light of 30 years of below-replacement fertility in many industrialized societies, demographers are asking whether fertility could drop even further, or whether there is a "floor" below which it will not fall. A key unanswered question is whether there may be a variable biological component...

This collection of essays from leading academics examines the connection between the World Trade Organization (WTO) and human rights issues, a topic which has provoked significant debate, particularly in the decade since the collapsed WTO talks in Seattle in 1999.

The WTO system is increasingly finding itself undermined by intractable disputes that involve high levels of public concern about the safety of proposed imports, in particular as seen in the EC-Hormones and the EC - Approval and Marketing of Biotech Products cases. This indicates a systemic...

The de facto moratorium and product-specific measures at issue in the EC - Biotech case involved what amounted to an EC decision to impose a substantive marketing ban on all biotech products. Yet they were treated as involving only a procedural delay under Annex C(1)(A) of the SPS Agreement. The...

The WTO system is increasingly finding itself undermined by intractable disputes that involve high levels of public concern about the safety of proposed imports, in particular as seen in the EC-Hormones and the EC Approval and Marketing of Biotech Products cases. This indicates a systemic...

The WTO Appellate Body has noted that the precautionary principle will be relevant to the interpretation of the WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures in various ways, although the Appellate Body has declined to determine the status of the precautionary principle at international...