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 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...

Ambition for employing public international legal authority as a means for the protection of human health and the environment appears to be diminishing in our transnationalist economic era. Practical and political challenges in defining the complex relationships between States and...

There is a particular pressure for international judges and arbitrators to turn to public law “standards of review” in health and environmental disputes, because they raise sensitive issues of domestic regulatory autonomy. Often, these cases may also involve scientific uncertainty as to the...

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.