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Is The Wto Quietly Fading Away?: The New Regionalism And Global Trade Rules, Stephen J. Powell, Trisha Low Dec 2014

Is The Wto Quietly Fading Away?: The New Regionalism And Global Trade Rules, Stephen J. Powell, Trisha Low

Stephen Joseph Powell

While scholars and governments alike view the liberalization of international trade as a positive development, they disagree on the medium that will accomplish this objective with the highest economic returns. Some experts believe that multilateralism through the 150+ member World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only way to achieve truly open and efficient trade. Others view multilateralism as but an aspiration and find that regionalism offers the only viable prospect for the meaningful further opening of markets. In light of what we label the "new regionalism," our paper explores in detail the positive and negative effects of regional trade arrangements …


Limiting Anticompetitive Government Interventions That Benefit Special Interests, D. Daniel Sokol Nov 2014

Limiting Anticompetitive Government Interventions That Benefit Special Interests, D. Daniel Sokol

D. Daniel Sokol

When government regulates, it may either intentionally or unintentionally generate restraints that reduce competition ("public restraints"). Public restraints allow a business to cloak its action in government authority and to immunize it from antitrust regulation. Private businesses may misuse the government's grant of antitrust immunity to facilitate behavior that benefits businesses at consumers' expense. One way is by obtaining government grants of immunity from antitrust scrutiny. A recent series of Supreme Court decisions has made this situation worse by limiting the reach of antitrust law in favor of sector regulation. This is true even though the Supreme Court refers to …


Environmental Unilateralism And The Wto/Gatt System, Ilona Cheyne Oct 2014

Environmental Unilateralism And The Wto/Gatt System, Ilona Cheyne

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


The World Trade Organization: Elevating Property Interests Above Human Rights, Marjorie Cohn Oct 2014

The World Trade Organization: Elevating Property Interests Above Human Rights, Marjorie Cohn

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


The World Trade Organization And Its Interpretation Of The Article Xx Exceptions To The General Agreement Of Tariffs And Trade, In Light Of Recent Developments, Brandon L. Bowen Oct 2014

The World Trade Organization And Its Interpretation Of The Article Xx Exceptions To The General Agreement Of Tariffs And Trade, In Light Of Recent Developments, Brandon L. Bowen

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


An Overview Of The Draft China Antimonopoly Law, H. Stephen Harris Jr. Sep 2014

An Overview Of The Draft China Antimonopoly Law, H. Stephen Harris Jr.

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


Sailing The Seas Of Protectionism: The Simultaneous Application Of Antidumping And Countervailing Duties To Nonmarket Economies - An Affront To Domestic And International Laws, Christopher Blake Mcdaniel Sep 2014

Sailing The Seas Of Protectionism: The Simultaneous Application Of Antidumping And Countervailing Duties To Nonmarket Economies - An Affront To Domestic And International Laws, Christopher Blake Mcdaniel

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


Justice For All In The Dispute Settlement System Of The World Trade Organization, Kim Van Der Borght Sep 2014

Justice For All In The Dispute Settlement System Of The World Trade Organization, Kim Van Der Borght

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


Moving All-In With The World Trade Organization: Ignoring Adverse Rulings And Gambling With The Future Of The Wto, Paul Rothstein Sep 2014

Moving All-In With The World Trade Organization: Ignoring Adverse Rulings And Gambling With The Future Of The Wto, Paul Rothstein

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


Behavioral International Law, Tomer Broude Feb 2014

Behavioral International Law, Tomer Broude

Tomer Broude

Economic analysis and rational choice have in the last decade made significant inroads into the study of international law and institutions, relying upon standard assumptions of perfect rationality of states and decision-makers. This approach is inadequate, both empirically and in its tendency towards outdated formulations of political theory. This article presents an alternative behavioral approach that provides new hypotheses addressing problems in international law while introducing empirically grounded concepts of real, observed rationality. First, I address methodological objections to behavioral analysis of international law: the focus of behavioral research on the individual; the empirical foundations of behavioral economics; and behavioral …


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 …