http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/227552 Sun, 19 May 2013 08:04:49 GMT 2013-05-19T08:04:49Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/237398 Title: The Appellate Body's GSP Decision: Internet Roundtable (with S Charnovitz, R Howse, J Bradley, J Pauwelyn and D Regan) Authors: Bartels, Lorand Description: This material is copyright Cambridge University Press or reproduced with permission from other copyright owners. It may be downloaded and printed for personal reference, but not otherwise copied, altered in any way or transmitted to others (unless explicitly stated otherwise) without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. Hypertext links to other Web locations are for the convenience of users and do not constitute any endorsement or authorisation by Cambridge University Press. Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/237398 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/237397 Title: 'Interim agreements' under Article XXIV GATT Authors: Bartels, Lorand Abstract: This note looks at the WTO rules and procedures applicable to the implementation period of regional trade agreements on trade in goods. In addition, it highlights some differences between law and practice and explores the implications of these divergences. Where the GATT and subsequent instruments draw a distinction between ‘full’ regional trade agreements and ‘interim’ agreements, in practice all agreements are notified as ‘full’ agreements with an implementation period. It analyses the possibility that this deviation from the law, now sanctioned in the 2006 Transparency Decision, might have some practical implications for the regulation of regional trade agreements in the WTO. Description: This material is copyright Cambridge University Press or reproduced with permission from other copyright owners. It may be downloaded and printed for personal reference, but not otherwise copied, altered in any way or transmitted to others (unless explicitly stated otherwise) without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. Hypertext links to other Web locations are for the convenience of users and do not constitute any endorsement or authorisation by Cambridge University Press. Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/237397 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/237059 Title: The Separation of powers in the WTO: how to avoid judicial activism Authors: Bartels, Lorand Abstract: As with other legal systems based on a separation of powers, the World Trade Organization is marked by a degree of tension between its political organs and its quasi-judicial organs, in particular the Appellate Body. In late 2000 this tension spilled out into the public domain, when the Appellate Body announced a procedure for the filing of amicus curiae briefs in the EC-Asbestos case.1 The question of public participation in WTO dispute settlement proceedings is sensitive to many WTO Members, and in expressly encouraging the submission of amicus briefs in this way the Appellate Body was felt to be overstepping its functions.2 In the end, this dispute settled with a draw, the Appellate Body deciding that it had no need to consider any of the amicus briefs submitted in that particular case, and yet still maintaining that panels and the Appellate Body have the right to take unsolicited amicus briefs into account, should they so choose. Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/237059 2008-01-17T00:00:00Z