Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Foreword by E. THOMAS SULLIVAN
- Introduction: An overview of the volume
- Part I The constitutional developments of international trade law
- Part II The scope of international trade law: Adding new subjects and restructuring old ones
- Part III Legal relations between developed and developing countries
- 10 The Uruguay Round North–South Grand Bargain: Implications for future negotiations
- Comment: The Uruguay Round North–South bargain: Will the WTO get over it?
- 11 The TRIPS-legality of measures taken to address public health crises: Responding to USTR–State–industry positions that undermine the WTO
- Comment: The TRIPS Agreement
- 12 “If only we were elephants”: The political economy of the WTO's treatment of trade and environment matters
- Comment: The dynamics of protest
- 13 The Seattle impasse and its implications for the World Trade Organization
- Comment: Trade negotiations and high politics: Drawing the right lessons from Seattle
- 14 Developing country interests in WTO agricultural policy
- Comment: WTO and policy reform in developing countries
- Part IV The operation of the WTO dispute settlement procedure
- Bibliography of works by ROBERT E. HUDEC
- Index
11 - The TRIPS-legality of measures taken to address public health crises: Responding to USTR–State–industry positions that undermine the WTO
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Foreword by E. THOMAS SULLIVAN
- Introduction: An overview of the volume
- Part I The constitutional developments of international trade law
- Part II The scope of international trade law: Adding new subjects and restructuring old ones
- Part III Legal relations between developed and developing countries
- 10 The Uruguay Round North–South Grand Bargain: Implications for future negotiations
- Comment: The Uruguay Round North–South bargain: Will the WTO get over it?
- 11 The TRIPS-legality of measures taken to address public health crises: Responding to USTR–State–industry positions that undermine the WTO
- Comment: The TRIPS Agreement
- 12 “If only we were elephants”: The political economy of the WTO's treatment of trade and environment matters
- Comment: The dynamics of protest
- 13 The Seattle impasse and its implications for the World Trade Organization
- Comment: Trade negotiations and high politics: Drawing the right lessons from Seattle
- 14 Developing country interests in WTO agricultural policy
- Comment: WTO and policy reform in developing countries
- Part IV The operation of the WTO dispute settlement procedure
- Bibliography of works by ROBERT E. HUDEC
- Index
Summary
This book honors Bob Hudec for his brilliant career and contributions to the development of the world trading system. Over the course of his career, Bob has contributed compelling and often counter-intuitive insights into the political economy of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade–World Trade Organization (GATT–WTO) system. He is responsible for demonstrating the importance of empirical analysis of GATT–WTO dispute settlement. His detailed studies of the GATT process suggested that, in spite of its politicized nature, the dispute settlement system had enjoyed a marked level of success in the real world of diffusing – if not always resolving – disputes. His essay on “justified disobedience” and US Section 301 remains a favorite among law students, who through it are able to grasp that the process of negotiating trade concessions involves the exercise of political power in ways that are not always favorably perceived by those from whom concessions are sought. Bob is an “institution-builder” in the best sense of that term. Through his lifetime of effort devoted to study of the world trading system, he has made an enormous contribution to its success, and to increased prosperity for the people of the world.
Bob Hudec has taken a particular interest in the effects of world trade rules on the developing countries. In recent years, no aspect of GATT and WTO law has more deeply divided the developed and developing countries than the treatment of trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS).
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- The Political Economy of International Trade LawEssays in Honor of Robert E. Hudec, pp. 311 - 342Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002
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