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Aaronson, Susan Ariel - 2012

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

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Global Sustainable Development and Trade Agreements : Toward a Green Bargain

Trachtman, Joel P. - 2022

Trade is a tool to increase human welfare and development, but is increasingly being harnessed also to achieve broad environmental and social sustainability. This paper evaluates the modern relationship between trade and distribution of wealth, on the one hand, and trade and sustainable...

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The Impending Demise of the WTO Appellate Body : From Centrepiece to Historical Relic?

Wagner, Markus - 2020

-)appointment of the members of the World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body. While the legislative arm of the organization has never … institutional redesign that has led to the Appellate Body becoming the World Trade Organization’s institutional “centerpiece”. These … entire World Trade Organization’s dispute settlement process. Moreover, it threatens the institution as a whole, unless some …

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Free-Riding on Enforcement in the WTO

Johns, Leslie; Pelc, Krzysztof - 2015

Countries can challenge potential trade violations using the WTO's dispute settlement system, yet many policies that appear to violate WTO rules remain unchallenged, even when they have a significant economic impact. Why is this? We argue that the likelihood that a country challenges a...

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The Diversity Challenge : Exploring the 'Invisible College' of International Arbitration

Franck, Susan; Freda, James; Lavin, Kellen; Lehmann, … - 2015

how development status was defined, developing world arbitrators accounted for fifteen to twenty percent of arbitrators …; and (4) for all measures used to analyze development status, arbitrators from the developing world received a … statistically lower number of appointments than their developed world counterparts. Recognizing the data revealed diversity in …

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On the Normative Foundations of the Global Competition Governance

Do, Kim Them - 2015

This paper discusses the normative foundation of a global competition regime. It asks: What kind of normative values do we need? What objectives ought we to pursue? Why value economic competition at such a tough time as this? Are the disputes on these issues in the US and EU jurisdictions likely...

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The Notion of 'Trade-Related' Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights : From World Trade to EU Law - And Back Again

Hestermeyer, Holger P. - 2015

Few fields of international law have developed as dramatically as international intellectual property law. Proliferating international agreements on IP law (and aspects thereof) and in particular the inclusion of IP law in trade agreements have brought about ever-higher standards of IP...

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Resolving Trade Disputes : The Mechanisms of GATT/WTO Dispute Resolution

Erskine, Daniel H. - 2009

The World Trade Organization's Dispute Settlement Body grew out of decades of experience and the frustrations of … article discusses the historical development of the World Trade Organization's dispute resolution system. The first section … section addresses the instrument which inaugurates the World Trade Organization's current dispute settlement procedure and …

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An International Common Law of Antitrust

Waller, Spencer Weber - 2009

supporters in favor of a true international antitrust code, or at least an optional code enforced by the World Trade Organization …

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Regional Trade Agreements v. The WTO : A Proposal for Reform of Article XXIV to Counter this Institutional Threat

Picker, Colin B. - 2007

This Article, originally presented at a symposium, THE WTO AT A CROSSROADS, in 2004 at the Law Faculty of Bar Ilan University in Israel, provides a proposal that responds to the problems posed by the increasing prevalence of regional trade agreements. The Article argues that RTAs have tended to...

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