ABSTRACT

Science and technology plays an increasingly important role in the continued development of international economic law. This book brings together well-known and rising scholars to explore the status and interaction of science, technology and international economic law. The book reviews the place of science and technology in the development of international economic law with a view to ensure a balance between the promotion of trade and investment liberalisation and decision-making based on a sound scientific process without hampering technological development.

The book features chapters from a range of experts – including Lukasz Gruszczynski, Jürgen Kurtz, Andrew Mitchell and Peter K. Yu – who examine a wide range of issues such as investment law, international trade law, and international intellectual property. By bringing together these issues, the book asks how international trade and investment regimes utilise science and technology, and whether they do so fairly and in the interest of broader public policies. This book will be of great interest to researchers of international economic law, health law, technology law and international intellectual property law.

part |64 pages

Trade in goods

chapter |23 pages

Does science speak clearly and fairly in trade and food safety disputes?

The search for an optimal response of WTO adjudication to problematic international standard-making

part |42 pages

Trade in services

chapter |15 pages

When trade encounters technology

The role of the technological neutrality principle in the development of WTO rules

chapter |25 pages

Renegotiate the WTO ‘schedules of commitments'?

Technological development and treaty interpretation

part |68 pages

Cross-cutting issues in trade, investment, science and technology

chapter |17 pages

Australia's plain packaging of tobacco products

Science and health measures in international economic law 1

chapter |28 pages

Climate change

Trading, investing and the interaction of law, science and technology

part |46 pages

Trade, intellectual property, science and technology

chapter |18 pages

Ignoring the science

What we know about patents suggests dire consequences from ACTA and the TPPA

part |62 pages

Science and technology issues and the developing world

chapter |10 pages

Discretionary injunctive relief for patent infringement

Partial remuneration after eBay and its implications for the developing world

chapter |19 pages

From science to the law of subsidies

An empirical and political analysis of fisheries international trade

chapter |31 pages

A second extension of the transition period

Can the WTO better integrate LDCs into TRIPS?