Developing countries and multilateral trade agreements: law and the promise of development
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Developing countries should view multilateral trade agreements such as the Uruguay Round of negotiations on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade from both utopian and cynical perspectives, according to the postmodern New Stream theory of international law. That is, developing countries should support the progress of international trade law, while recognizing its limited effectiveness in promoting development. Developing countries should also pursue alternate ways of increasing their economic power, such as through regional trade agreements.
Publication Name: Harvard Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0017-811X
Year: 1995
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Mediation - from "pledge" to industry-wide promise
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Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) develops constantly, and the latest trend is for entire industries to promise to pick ADR as a first option, inclkuding the banking/financial services, insurance, chemicals, foods, and over-the-counter drug industries. The list of individual signers includes some of the most important figures in these industries. Dispute resolution clauses should always be included in industry contracts and parties considering litigation of patent and other technology disputes should always consider ADR as a first option.
Publication Name: Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0882-9098
Year: 1998
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Multilateral resolution over unilateral retaliation: adjudicating the use of Section 301 before the WTO
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) should have litigated the 1995 dispute between Japan and the US over automobile exports and imports, and ruled against the US threat to impose trade sanction using section 301. Section 301 is exactly the type of law that allows unilateral action to undermine the multilateral trade systemn the WTO was created to regulate, and is in violation of article 23 of the GATT.
Publication Name: University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law
Subject: Law
ISSN: 1086-7872
Year: 1996
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