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From Gats To Apec: The Impact Of Trade Agreements On Legal Services, Laurel S. Terry, Laurel S. Terry Oct 2015

From Gats To Apec: The Impact Of Trade Agreements On Legal Services, Laurel S. Terry, Laurel S. Terry

Laurel S. Terry

This article provides a comprehensive overview of the treatment of legal services in the United States‘ international trade agreements. Although many individuals are now familiar with the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), far fewer realize that legal services are included in at least fifteen international trade agreements to which the United States is a party. This article begins by identifying those trade agreements and other developments including the 2009 Legal Services Initiative of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). The article continues by explaining the structure of the GATS and comparing its provisions to the provisions found in …

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Transnational Legal Practice [2014], Laurel S. Terry, Carole Silver Dec 2014

Transnational Legal Practice [2014], Laurel S. Terry, Carole Silver

Laurel S. Terry

This article focuses on Transnational Legal Practice (TLP) activities that took place in 2014, along with 2013 activities that were not addressed in the previous year’s TLP article. In the authors’ view, meeting points and connective relationships are where the action is in TLP. This article highlights some of the meeting points and relationships that affect border-crossing for a variety of actors involved in TLP policy-making and practice. It refers to “TLP-Nets,” using the term “Nets” to suggest the notion of a network. Networks are “boundary-spanning and boundary-creating structures that affect the roles of organizational actors, including business corporations, voluntary …

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The Depth Of The Trade In Services Agreement, Harold Godsoe Jan 2014

The Depth Of The Trade In Services Agreement, Harold Godsoe

Harold Godsoe

The setting against which plurilateral negotiations toward a new Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) are taking place is frustration. Service liberalization from GATS to bilateral PTAs to the Doha round have proven difficult and/or ineffective. The glaring and unexamined question is: why? This paper examines the current trade literature for what is known about TISA to date and subjects that information to a feasibility analysis for trade in service agreements. My goal is to understand what went wrong in previous attempts to liberalize services and/or trade and, consequently, what might being going wrong in TISA, and how it might be …

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But What Will The Wto Disciplines Apply To? Distinguishing Among Market Access, National Treatment And Article Vi:4 Measures When Applying The Gats To Legal Services, Laurel S. Terry Dec 2002

But What Will The Wto Disciplines Apply To? Distinguishing Among Market Access, National Treatment And Article Vi:4 Measures When Applying The Gats To Legal Services, Laurel S. Terry

Laurel S. Terry

One of the issues currently facing World Trade Organization (WTO) Member States is whether to extend to the legal profession and other service providers the WTO Disciplines for Domestic Regulation in the Accountancy Sector [Accountancy Disciplines]. The Accountancy Disciplines document applies to regulatory measures that would be considered domestic regulations under Article VI:4 of the GATS, rather than market access or national treatment measures under Articles XVI or XVII of the GATS. This paper argues that in order to meaningfully discuss whether to extend the Accountancy Disciplines to the legal profession, U.S. policy-makers and stakeholders need to understand the type …

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