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The "Race To The Bottom" Returns: China's Challenge To The International Labor Movement, Stephen F. Diamond
The "Race To The Bottom" Returns: China's Challenge To The International Labor Movement, Stephen F. Diamond
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Legal Services In The Doha Round, Sydney M. Cone Iii.
Legal Services In The Doha Round, Sydney M. Cone Iii.
Articles & Chapters
As a subcategory of professional services and a sub-subcategory of business services, legal services, when supplied transnationally, are the subject of negotiation in the current round of multilateral trade negotiation known as the Doha Round. The negotiations on legal services that take place in the Doha Round have considerable potential for affecting the economics and activities of lawyers and law firms, and for influencing the content of local professional rules governing the practice of law. This article examines that potential.
Legal Movements In Intellectual Property: Trips, Unilateral Action, Bilateral Agreements, And Hiv/Aids, Margo A. Bagley
Legal Movements In Intellectual Property: Trips, Unilateral Action, Bilateral Agreements, And Hiv/Aids, Margo A. Bagley
Faculty Articles
This Article begins with an overview of the relationship between the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (the "TRIPS Agreement") and the HIV/AIDS pandemic which created the need for the Doha Declaration. It then discusses two trade-related movements, unilateral action and TRIPS-plus bilateral agreements, that call into question the long-term effectiveness of the TRIPS Agreement process, generally, and the benefits of the Doha Declaration, in particular, in addressing multiple facets of the access to essential medicines problem. This Article concludes that a consideration of these issues should be included in the development of any further TRIPS-related solutions to …
Poverty Reduction, Trade, And Rights, Chantal Thomas
Poverty Reduction, Trade, And Rights, Chantal Thomas
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Enforcement Of Wto Rulings: An Interest Group Analysis, Mark L. Movsesian
Enforcement Of Wto Rulings: An Interest Group Analysis, Mark L. Movsesian
Faculty Publications
The WTO's Dispute Settlement Understanding ("DSU") provides that disputes are to be resolved in adversarial proceedings before impartial panels of experts. These panels have authority to decide whether members' laws conform to WTO requirements; members may appeal rulings to a permanent Appellate Body within the organization, which has the final say on questions of law and legal interpretation. Under the DSU, if a member fails to comply with a final ruling in a dispute, the prevailing party may retaliate by suspending trade concessions that it owes the offending member. This retaliation can continue until the offending member implements the WTO's …
Disciplining Globalization: International Law, Illegal Trade, And The Case Of Narcotics, Chantal Thomas
Disciplining Globalization: International Law, Illegal Trade, And The Case Of Narcotics, Chantal Thomas
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
This Article is the first in a series of studies of the globalization of illicit markets. My theses are as follows: First, the increase in international trade in illicit products and services parallels the growth in international trade more generally that accompanies the phenomenon of globalization. Second, at the same time that most international trade law has moved toward a posture of liberalization, there has been a movement to strengthen the prohibition and punishment of trade in illicit transactions. Third, the mechanisms that have developed to regulate this prohibition constitute a significant development in the international legal order.
The Dynamic Of Institutional Discrepancies And Growing Contradiction Within The International Economic Order, Chantal Thomas
The Dynamic Of Institutional Discrepancies And Growing Contradiction Within The International Economic Order, Chantal Thomas
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
"Race To The Bottom" Returns: China's Challenge To The International Labor Movement, Stephen F. Diamond
"Race To The Bottom" Returns: China's Challenge To The International Labor Movement, Stephen F. Diamond
Faculty Publications
This article will consider four areas of concern. First, the structural changes underway in the Chinese economy are creating both domestic and international imbalances that exacerbate inequalities among Chinese workers and create new inequities in the global labor market. Second, the Chinese regime's approach to labor rights remains rigidly authoritarian and, as a result, it is triggering ever more dramatic confrontations between workers and the Chinese state, despite the regime's nominal commitment to "socialism." Third, these developments are being reinforced by a pathological evolution in the principles that govern key international institutions such as the WTO and the ILO. A …
A Comment On China's Participation In The World Trade Organization, Steve Charnovitz
A Comment On China's Participation In The World Trade Organization, Steve Charnovitz
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
This comment discusses two papers presented at the US-China WTO Roundtable sponsored by the Institute of International Law of The Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law. The paper by Zhang Naigen examines treaty interpretation in dispute settlement under the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. Professor Zhang observes that WTO panels will have to interpret the underlying provisions in non-WTO treaties, namely the intellectual property rights treaties overseen by the World Intellectual Property Organization. The paper by Yang Guohua points out the paradox that although the WTO permits governments to utilize import safeguards, in all …
The Study Of Chinese Law In The United States: Reflections On The Past And Concerns About The Future, Stanley B. Lubman
The Study Of Chinese Law In The United States: Reflections On The Past And Concerns About The Future, Stanley B. Lubman
Hong Yen Chang Center for Chinese Legal Studies
I am pleased to write in honor of Bill Jones by reflecting here on the study of Chinese law, which has occupied us both since the early 1960s and has since grown far beyond its narrow scope at that time. In the pages that follow, I first survey the development and current state of the field by reviewing American scholarship on some major areas of Chinese law from those early days up to the present. I am also pleased to use this review as a vehicle for noting, in particular, some of Bill's contributions to our inquiries. Some related activities …
Professor Hudec's Contribution To World Order, Steve Charnovitz
Professor Hudec's Contribution To World Order, Steve Charnovitz
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
For over three decades, Professor Robert E. Hudec shaped the field of international trade law, and inspired students, colleagues, and policy-makers around the world. Professor Hudec was a spirited, witty, unassuming, kind, and honest man. He enjoyed having his ideas contested by others, and was willing to spend time to help colleagues and students think through their ideas. This tribute to Professor Hudec collects a series of stories and acknowledgments from his peers and colleagues.
The World Trade Organization And Law Enforcement, Steve Charnovitz
The World Trade Organization And Law Enforcement, Steve Charnovitz
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
Increased threats from transborder criminal activity are leading to stronger governmental and intergovernmental responses in the military, judicial, and regulatory arenas. These efforts, particularly the non-military efforts, raise a new issue in international economic law: the intersection between trade and law enforcement. This paper provides an overview of this “trade and law enforcement” linkage in four areas: (1) security, (2) health, (3) human rights, and (4) environmental protection. To explain the linkage between trade and law enforcement, I present the taxonomy of how trade measures are usable for law enforcement, and I offer a synopsis of the WTO provisions relevant …
Trade Sanctions And Human Rights–Past, Present, And Future, Carlos Manuel Vázquez
Trade Sanctions And Human Rights–Past, Present, And Future, Carlos Manuel Vázquez
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The relationship between the international law of trade and the international law of human rights has commanded an increasing amount of scholarly attention in the past few years, perhaps spurred by the well-known events at Seattle in 1999. This article offers some reflections on this relationship, focusing on the permissibility under international law of imposing trade sanctions against nations that commit violations of international human rights. Part I begins with some reflections on the historical relationship between these two bodies of law. Part I also considers why the human rights community appears to feel threatened by the international trade system, …
China's Legal System And The Wto: Prospects For Compliance, Donald C. Clarke
China's Legal System And The Wto: Prospects For Compliance, Donald C. Clarke
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
The impact of WTO membership both on China and its trading partners, both for good and for ill, has been greatly overstated. WTO treaty obligations and Dispute Settlement Body rulings will not become part of Chinese domestic unless specifically incorporated by Chinese legislation. Moreover, the WTO does not require a perfect legal system of its members; instead, it requires a degree of transparency and fairness in certain limited areas. Although some of China's WTO commitments will be difficult for it to fulfill, even non-fulfillment will not result in the predicted flood of WTO dispute settlement proceedings, since such proceedings can …
Taiwan And The Wt0, Steve Charnovitz
Taiwan And The Wt0, Steve Charnovitz
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
This paper is about Taiwan and the World Trade Organization. It discusses the history of Taiwan's involvement in the world trading system and the accession to the WTO. The paper then notes some unique features of Taiwan's membership and discusses the current political tension with China in the WTO. The paper ends with a discussion of the implications of Taiwan's membership in the WTO for potential Taiwanese membership in other international organizations.
Against Principled Antitrust, Edward T. Swaine
Against Principled Antitrust, Edward T. Swaine
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
Competition policy is on the WTO agenda for the Doha Round, but it is unlikely that it will result in any substantive international standards; the goal, instead, seems to be to agree on core principles to guide the development of national law, including transparency, non-discrimination, and procedural fairness, perhaps extending to special and differential treatment for developing countries. While there is much to commend these principles, this paper takes a deliberately contrarian view, arguing that core principles are not at all where WTO competition policy should begin. It further disputes the appropriateness of applying an emerging meta-principle of the WTO …
The Byrd Amendment Is Wto-Illegal: But We Must Kill The Byrd With The Right Stone, Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Petros C. Mavroidis
The Byrd Amendment Is Wto-Illegal: But We Must Kill The Byrd With The Right Stone, Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Petros C. Mavroidis
Faculty Scholarship
On 16 January 2003, the WTO Appellate Body issued its report on United States – Continued Dumping And Subsidy Offset Act Of 2000 (WTO Doc. WT/DS217 and 234/AB/R). In this report, the Appellate Body condemned the so-called US Byrd Amendment by finding that it was inconsistent with the US obligations under the WTO Agreements on Antidumping (AD) and Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM).