Advocacy and rhetoric aside, Oxfam's report on the implementation of the "Paragraph 6 Public Health" TRIPS amendment on patent protection is pretty damning. Much of the objection is against TRIPS-plus and political pressure preventing states with generic medicine production capacity from exercising rights under the December

In an earlier post, I quoted the Economist taking the view that the new Democratic Congress would be more skeptical on trade issues.  Now someone has tried to quantify this point.  Simon Evenett and Michael Meier of the Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research at the University

A few weeks ago, I did a post relating to a summary of the recent Hormones panel meetings, by Anna-Emilia Autio and Petko Kantchevski: * Wednesday, September 27, 2006, meeting of Panel with parties and scientific experts (notes of Petko Kantchevski) * Thursday, September 28, 2006, meeting of Panel with parties and

The report of Senator Lautenberg mentioned by Simon Lester in a recent post, does not say a word about two important legal points in the context of this issue (See "OPEC, the WTO, Regionalism, and Unilateralism”, Journal of World Trade, Vol. 37 (2003), by Melaku Desta). 1. Four important

Pascal Lamy was in the U.S. last week, and spoke in a number of academic and other settings.  (He also completed the NY Marathon on Sunday--practice for the Doha Round, perhaps.)  See the story and pictures about his visit to Fletcher.  Lamy spoke quite a bit about governance, and

I've heard it suggested that OPEC's actions to limit oil supply violate WTO rules.  See, for example, this recent press release and report from Senator Frank Lautenberg.  After running through the legal arguments, the report concludes: OPEC’s practices are in violation of WTO rules prohibiting

There are no doubt many important issues that will be affected by tomorrow's elections in the U.S.  According to the Economist (subscriber only), though, trade policy could experience some of the most noticeable effects: The stalemate of divided government might well lead to better policy, particularly on

From a WTO legal  perspective, it seems that  Stiglitz’s article (" A  New Agenda for Global Warming" ) proposes a mix of  several  strategies that must in fact be carefully distinguished because every strategy rests on the invocation of different dispositions which pose specific legal problems. Even if Sitglitz

One of my favorite topics in trade law is the non-discrimination standard, so I'm always excited when I see that someone has tried to tackle the issue, or at least some aspect of it.  Julia Qin of Wayne State University Law School has just written a paper entitled