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Services As Objects Of International Trade: Bartering The Legal Profession, Louise L. Hill
Services As Objects Of International Trade: Bartering The Legal Profession, Louise L. Hill
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The General Agreement on Trade in Service calls for members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to further liberalize and expand opportunities for international trade in services. With legal services included in this mandate, requests for specific commitments and offers have been made by WTO Member States. While services as components of international trade is new to many of the WTO Member States, free movement of services has been addressed by the European Union (EU) since the inception of the European Economic Community. Thus EU directives, declarations, codes and case law serve as valuable resources to WTO Member States as …