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Replacing Slingshots With Swords: Implications Of The Antigua-Gambling 22.6 Panel Report For Developing Countries And The World Trading System, Georgia Hamann

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

In December 2007, the WTO awarded Antigua the right to suspend TRIPS obligations at a value of $21 million. This decision represents the WTO's continuing evolution into a body capable of addressing the concerns of developed countries while balancing the legitimate interests of developed nations. For the second time, the WTO has authorized suspension of intellectual property protection under the TRIPS agreement. Such a remedy, if widely adopted, has the capacity to address concerns surrounding effective retaliation by small economies versus large economies, which traditionally have discouraged developing countries from participating in WTO dispute resolution. Additionally, the remedy seems likely …

The Millennium Challenge Account: Influencing Governance In Developing Countries Through Performance-Based Foreign Aid, Rebecca Stubbs

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The United States actively impacts the legal and political environments of developing countries through the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA). This new approach to foreign development aid presents both an incredible opportunity to encourage good governance as well as a serious danger of U.S. political agendas manipulating foreign aid to serve partisan interests. The MCA should seek to develop a nonpartisan strategy and focus primarily on pure rule of law, governance, and political freedom indicators and programming in order to maintain its current successes in improving the legal and policy environment of developing countries competing for MCA funding.

The direction and …