This Discussion Paper identifies the rules on environment protection provided for in the Comprehensive and Progressive … rules on environment protection available in the agreements signed by Southern Common Market (Mercosur) internally and with … its external partners, as well as relating these rules to those provided for by the World Trade Organization (WTO). …

The current WTO jurisdiction on linkages of trade and environment is not free of contradictions and has provided for … heated debate due to some inconsistencies in past WTO rulings. The article argues that the WTO jurisdiction is not only … unclear but also lacks economic reasoning. It aims to structure WTO provisions and WTO case rulings so that their application …

and its Member States attempt to ensure that EU-based businesses are not undercut by emerging competition, drawing on …

Organization (WTO) and from the topics established therein which the WTO has not regulated so far. …

which has permeated WTO scholarship for the last 10 years. Our main criticism concerns the substance of the entire debate … subsequent issues of WTO enforcement and the interpretation of the wording of the dispute settlement understanding. They thereby … along the lines of the nature of the WTO contract. This results in to three key findings: First, none of the two schools of …

(WTO) is an incomplete contract among sovereign states. Incomplete contracts contain gaps. Ex post, contractual gaps may … backtracking behavior. This paper examines the somewhat understudied issue of optimal trade policy flexibility design in the WTO … 'liability rule' of escape), or a bilateral renegotiation provision (a 'property rule' of escape). Modeling the WTO as a fully …

This paper surveys the law and economics literature on WTO dispute settlement. As a background, we first briefly lay …

agreement and how this depends on the fundamentals of the contracting environment. We argue that taking contracting costs …

The paper argues that focusing only on disputes formally raised in the WTO Dispute Settlement system underestimates the … extent of trade conflict resolution within the WTO. Both the SPS and TBT Committees address a significant number of 'specific …