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2015

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Overcoming The Geneva Impasse: How Regional Trade Agreements Can Help Global Trade, Chin Leng Lim Mar 2015

Overcoming The Geneva Impasse: How Regional Trade Agreements Can Help Global Trade, Chin Leng Lim

Chin Leng Lim

The World Trade Organisaton’s rules have permitted regional trade agreements since 1947. Over the years its membership has made only half-hearted efforts to tighten these rules. Without ignoring some well-known drawbacks which attend regional trade agreements, we need to understand the reasons for this hesitancy: regional agreements can help global trade.


Working Borders: Linking Debates About Insourcing And Outsourcing Of Capital And Labor, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Working Borders: Linking Debates About Insourcing And Outsourcing Of Capital And Labor, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

No abstract provided.


Should The World Trade Organization Incorporate Labor And Environmental Standards?, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Should The World Trade Organization Incorporate Labor And Environmental Standards?, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

No abstract provided.


Transfer Of Technology In The Contemporary International Order, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Transfer Of Technology In The Contemporary International Order, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Change And International Government, Chantal Thomas Feb 2015

Constitutional Change And International Government, Chantal Thomas

Chantal Thomas

No abstract provided.


“Gatting” The New Climate Treaty Right: Leveraging Energy Subsidies To Promote Multilateralism, Deepa Badrinarayana Dec 2014

“Gatting” The New Climate Treaty Right: Leveraging Energy Subsidies To Promote Multilateralism, Deepa Badrinarayana

Deepa Badrinarayana

In a previous paper, Trading Up Kyoto: A Proposal for Amending the Protocol, I argued that not only do international trade rules, specifically the operation of the World Trade Organization("WTO") agreements, hinder international climate change treaty negotiations, but also that applying exceptions to circumvent trade rules is doctrinally difficult and normatively unsettling, primarily because of WTO jurisprudence, the colorable intent of nations that are violating WTO rules in the guise of mitigating climate change, and the challenges to creating environmental exceptions to trade rules to facilitate emissions reduction. To illustrate this point, I focused on ongoing trade disputes involving a …