This book chapter analyses how globalisation has changed and continues to change the nature of trade policy, and consequently affects the ways in which international trade policy interacts with domestic policies to shape the structure of domestic regulation. The chapter compares and contrasts...

This paper analyses the scope of property rights and the ambit of so-called regulatory takings; that is if owners' should be compensated, or not, when regulation effects their property. The paper discusses how investment assets are protected as a kind of property through trade and investment...

The fundamental purpose of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) is to extend the commitments that members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have made in that multilateral forum. FTAs also frequently include commitments in areas that are outside the WTO obligations. Protection of traditional...

This chapter discusses the several reasons why relations between New Zealand and Australia have not become closer notwithstanding the Closer Economic Relationship (CER) Agreement between the countries. The authors suggest that the experience of CER offers a salutary tale on the limits of 'old...

This short article is part of the inaugural issue of the WIPO Journal. This article discusses how the TRIPS Agreement has been interpreted and misinterpreted and the consequences of that misinterpretation. The article concludes that the rules-based dispute settlement system has failed to provide...

Is it copyright's role to fill houses with books? / Rebecca Giblin, Monash University -- Conjectures on governance and wholesale copyright licensing / Adriane Porcin, University of Manitoba -- Uber copyright reform / Daniel Gervais, Vanderbilt Law School -- Towering wave or tempest in a teapot?...

This article is about how geographical indications (GIs) cannot deliver the protection for traditional knowledge that indigenous peoples seek. There are three broad ways in which the protection of GIs appears to offer the possibility of providing legal mechanisms to protect traditional...

This article discusses the New Zealand Trade Marks Act 2002. The statute provides a mechanism by which interests of sections of the community, particularly Maori (the indigenous population of New Zealand) can be taken into account within the framework of the trade mark registration process. This...