The World Trade Organization knowledge agreements

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Label

The World Trade Organization knowledge agreements

Statement of responsibility

Christopher Arup

Creator

• Arup, Christopher, 1949-

Author

• Arup, Christopher, 1949-

Subject

• Service industries -- Case studies
• Service industries -- Law and legislation
• World Trade Organization
• Intellectual property (International law)

Genre

• Case studies

Language

eng

Summary

The WTO intellectual property and services agreements (TRIPs and GATS) form the global legal framework in which governments now regulate trade in knowledge. This second edition analyses the provisions of the agreements and examines closely the thirteen years of implementation and revision. Gathering together the interpretations placed on the agreements by the WTO dispute settlement bodies, it reports on the initiatives taken by the members both to liberalise trade in knowledge and to shape international business regulation. Drawing on this, Christopher Arup assesses the future of the WTO as a global law-making institution. Three expanded case studies (legal services, genetic codes/essential medicines, and on-line media) illustrate the impact of the agreements and highlight the challenges faced by the WTO in reconciling free trade with social regulation

Member of

• Cambridge studies in law and society

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

LC call number

K3973

LC item number

.A975 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Cambridge studies in law and society