This insightful book assesses the impact of the WTO through the medium of two new multilateral agreements - the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPs). It explains how these agreements push trade policies 'behind the border', mediating conflicts between contrasting legalities and negotiating political and cultural, as well as economic, issues. Detailed case studies address topics of global significance: competition between different types of legal services, ownership claims to the genetic codes of plants and animals, and access to the content resources and technical facilities of the on-line media. With the Millennium Trade Round in the balance, the book assesses the WTO's potential to move beyond laissez-faire and provide support for independent and alternative producers, providers and users.
| ISBN: | 9780521773553 |
| Publication date: | 3rd August 2000 |
| Author: | Christopher Arup |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 340 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society |
| Genres: |
Public international law: economic and trade |
This insightful book assesses the impact of the WTO through the medium of two new multilateral agreements - the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPs). It explains how these agreements push trade policies 'behind the border', mediating conflicts between contrasting legalities and negotiating political and cultural, as well as economic, issues. Detailed case studies address topics of global significance: competition between different types of legal services, ownership claims to the genetic codes of plants and animals, and access to the content resources and technical facilities of the on-line media. With the Millennium Trade Round in the balance, the book assesses the WTO's potential to move beyond laissez-faire and provide support for independent and alternative producers, providers and users.
The New World Trade Organization Agreements features in the following genres: Public international law: economic and trade
The New World Trade Organization Agreements is available in Hardback
The New World Trade Organization Agreements was written by Christopher Arup and published by Cambridge University Press
The New World Trade Organization Agreements has 340 pages
Yes it is part of Cambridge Studies in Law and Society series