United States - Certain measures affecting imports of poultry from China: the fascinating case that wasn't

Professor Regan's paper on the US-Poultry (China) case provides highly interesting insight both into the facts of the case and the Panel's reasoning, as well as the broader systemic issues lurking behind them. The author has identified a number of thought-provoking aspects in a case that, at first glance, appears to be a relatively bland SPS disput

I Seminario de Derecho Internacional. 9 de diciembre de 2020.

Miércoles 9 de diciembre: Dra. Frida Armas (Argentina) - Expositora / Dr. Ricardo Abello-Galvis (Colombia) - Expositor / Dr. Wagner Menezes (Brasil) - Expositor / Dr. Jan Bohanes (República Checa - Austria) - Expositor / Dr. Fernando Piérola (Perú) - ExpositorSe abordaron algunos de los principales asuntos de la agenda jurídica internacional pendiente del Perú, desde un enfoque crítico y prospectivo, y bajo los principios de calidad e internacionalización

Picking the Wrong Fight: Why Attacks on the World Trade Organization Pose the Real Threat to National Environmental and Public Health Protection

A principal reason for popular concern about the World Trade Organisation is that national rules-especially those for environmental and public health pro-tection-may be overturned because they are incompatible with the WTO's rules. This article argues that while these concerns are not totally unfounded, they are exaggerated. A central reason for this exaggeration is that environmental and consumer advocates discount the pivotal role of governments in the dispute resolution process. Governments agree to the multilateral rules in the first place. Governments decide which market access barriers to pursue and how aggressively. Governments determine how to comply with a WTO judgment that goes against them. Furthermore, this article contends that by exaggerating the constraint imposed upon national governments by the WTO, consumer and environmental advocates run the risk of actually discouraging the very environmental and public health regulations they favor. Copyright (c) 2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.