WTO dispute resolution and the preservation of the public domain of science under international law

WTO Dispute Resolution and the Preservation of the Public Domain of Science Under International Law (with R. Dreyfuss)

The Big Chill: The WTO and Multilateral Environmental Agreements*

If sustainable development is about the integration of economic and environmental goals, then there seems to be a signiacant lack of integration between the preeminent global governance structures set up to manage trade and environment respectively. The international trade regime has evolved into one of the most powerful and inouential multilateral regimes in the world today in terms of its abi...

The Evolution of GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement

Despite debuting to little fanfare under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), dispute settlement under the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been called the “backbone of the multilateral trading system.” Indeed, whereas GATT dispute settlement could scarcely have seemed more flawed, the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU) is widely touted for boosting confidence in an in...

DEBESH CHAKRABORTY, “The Impact of ASEAN+3 Trade Agreements on the South Asian Economy: An Analysis in GTAP

Underlying the emergence of a global administrative law is the recognition of the fact that increased global interdependence has led to a situation where decision making has moved beyond national boundaries. This research project is an effort to view diverse international governance structures from an administrative law perspective so as to identify some patterns of commonality and connection s...

اثرگذاری منازعات حقوقی پیشین کشورها در سازمان تجارت جهانی بر منازعات فعلی آنها

The dispute resolution mechanism in the World Trade Organization is a way of leveraging in the political and economic relationships. Countries’ legal knowledge plays a substantial role on disputes’ initiation and continuation. This study assesses the effect of previous WTO disputes on the hazard rate of attendance in a new one, using survival analysis. Our dataset encompasses 427 disputes from ...