Law of WTO: Current Issues

WTO AND ' NEW ISSUES ' Amit

The paper argues that WTO has not been functioning in a transparent manner and that the benefits of globalisation have not reached all countries. If Seattle is any indication, WTO is in fact 'a rich man's club'. Developed countries have been adopting the strategy of prying open the markets of developing countries while at the same time, erecting barriers that prevent access to markets in their ...

The Challenges of WTO Law: Strategies for Developing Country Adaptation

With the creation of the World Trade Organization (“WTO”), an area of international law may have become more like law as we commonly perceive it. Yet it is not necessarily the neutral technocratic process some of its proponents make it to be. Whatever is one’s perspective on trade liberalization and its enforcement, developing countries and developing country constituents are at a disadvantage ...

Flexibilities in WTO law to support tobacco control regulation.

Title WTO Negotiations and Other Agricultural Trade Issues in Japan

The University of Sydney Faculty of Law Current Issues in Criminal Justice

Three recent papers have examined the effect of a national tightening of firearm legislation and gun buy-back in Australia in 1996-1997 on firearm and non-firearm death rates. Despite analysing almost the same data, the three papers reach rather different conclusions. In this article, we highlight key methodological concerns with the papers. We also make some judgments as to the evidence on the...