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Economic globalization and respect for human rights are both highly topical issues. In theory, more trade should increase economic welfare and protection of human rights should ensure individual dignity. Both fields of law protect certain freedoms: economic development should lead to higher human rights standards, and UN embargoes are used to secure compliance with human rights agreements. However the interaction between trade liberalisation and human rights protection is complex, and recently, tension has arisen between these two areas. Do WTO obligations covering intellectual property prevent governments from implementing their human rights obligations, including rights to food or health? Is it fair to accord the benefits of trade subject to a clean human rights record? This book first examines the theoretical framework of the interaction between the disciplines of international trade law and human rights. It builds upon the well-known debate between Professor Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, who construes trade obligations as human rights, and Professor Philip Alston, who warns of a merger and acquisition of human rights by trade law. From this starting point, further chapters explore the differing legal matrices of the two fields and examine how cooperation between them might be improved, both in international law-making and institutions,in dispute settlement. The interaction between trade and human rights is then explored through seven case studies:freedom of expression and competition law; IP protection and health; agricultural trade and the right to food; trade restrictions on conflict WHO convention on tobacco control; and, finally, human rights conditionalities in preferential trade schemes.

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Author:   Thomas Cottier (, Managing Director, World Trade Institute, Bern; Professor of European and International Economic Law, University of Bern, Switzerland) ,  Joost Pauwelyn (, Associate Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law) ,  Elisabeth Bürgi (, attorney at law, researcher, World Trade Institute, Bern and Institute of European and International Economic Law, University of Bern, Switzerland)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.798kg
ISBN:  

9780199285839

ISBN 10:   0199285837
Pages:   544
Publication Date:   17 November 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

John H. Jackson: Foreword Elisabeth Bürgi, Thomas Cottier and Joost Pauwelyn: Introduction PART I CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK: DEFINING AND CONNECTING THE TWO FIELDS 1: E.U. Petersmann; Philip Alston: The Petersmann-Alston Debate: Market freedoms as human rights or merger and acquisition of human rights by trade law 2: Christine Breining: The Legal matrix of human rights and trade law 3: Carlos Vazquez: Comments 4: Victor Mosoti: Law-making: Institutional Cooperation and Norm Creation in International Organizations 5: Larry Helfer: Mediating Interactions in an Expanding International Intellectual Property Regime 6: Marsha Echols: Institutional Cooperation and Norm Creation in International Organizations: The FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius 7: Caroline Dommen: Human Rights and Trade: Two Practical Suggestions for Promoting Coordination and Coherence 8: Joost Pauwelyn: Dispute settlement: How to Win a WTO Dispute based on non-WTO Law? Questions of Jurisdiction and Merits 9: Kong Qingjiang and Maria Green: Dispute settlement: Comments PART II THE TRADE AND HUMAN RIGHTS INTERFACE IN PRACTICE: SEVEN CASE STUDIES 10: Thomas Cottier: Freedom of Expression:Linkages between Freedom of Expression and Competition Rules in International Trade- The Hertel case and beyond 11: Christoph Graber and Carlos Vazquez: Freedom of Expression: Comments 12: Frederick Abbott: The Rule of Reason and the Right to Health: Integrating Human Rights and Competition Principles in the Context of TRIPS 13: Sisule Musungu and Prabhash Ranjan: Health: Comments 14: Christine Breining: The Right to Food and Trade in Agriculture 15: Shelley Edwardson: Food: Comments 16: Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer: Stopping Trade in Conflict Diamonds: Exploring the Trade and Human Rights Interface with the WTO Waiver for the Kimberely Process 17: Kevin R. Gray: Conflict Diamonds: Comments 18: Karin Lucke: The UN Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights 19: Allyn Taylor: The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco 20: Werner Meng: Tobacco: Comments 21: Lorand Bartels: The WTO Ruling on EC - Tariff Preferences to Developing Countries and its implications for conditionality in GSP Programs 22: Jane Bradley and Gregory Shaffer: EC Tariff-preferences: Comments

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Thomas Cottier is Managing Director of the World Trade Institute, Bern; and Professor of European and International Economic Law at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Joost Pauwelyn is Associate Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law. Elisabeth Bürgi is an attorney at law, and a researcher at the World Trade Institute, Bern and at the Institute of European and International Economic Law of the University of Bern, Switzerland.

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