In September 2004, then-European Commissioner for Trade Pascal Lamy released his study on the political challenge of 'collective preferences' for the world trading system. Collective preferences cause a problem for the WTO if the resulting measure violates WTO rules and yet the measure is too...

This article provides an analytical overview of one of the most important provisions in the WTO's Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes. That is Article 21.5 which provides for a review of whether governmental measures taken to comply do in fact achieve...

The relationship of the WTO to the international community and to its individual denizens continues to be a contentious topic in trade law and policy. In 2001, European Commissioner for Trade Pascal Lamy suggested the need for 'cosmopolitics' in global governance in order to improve...