Research Handbook on Environment, Health and the WTO

Edited by Geert Van Calster, Full Professor, KU Leuven, Belgium, Visiting Professor, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia and a practising member of the Belgian Bar and Denise Prévost, Maastricht University, the Netherlands

Contents:

Preface

PART I: GENERAL ISSUES
1. The Precautionary Principle in Conflicts Law Perspectives
Alexia Herwig and Christian Joerges

2. Regulatory Purpose in GATT Article III, TBT Article 2.1, the Subsidies Agreement, and Elsewhere: Hic et Ubique
Donald H. Regan

3. Equivalence and Risk Regulation under the World Trade Organization’s SPS Agreement
Marsha A. Echols

4. On the Efficiency of Health Measures and the ‘Appropriate Level of Protection’
Jeffrey Atik

5. The International Organization for Standardization: Private Voluntary Standards as Swords and Shields
David A. Wirth

6. Law and Economics of the SPS Agreement: A Critical Perspective
Alessandra Arcuri

7. Trade, Environment and Animal Welfare: Conditioning Trade in Goods and Services on Conduct in Another Country?
Peter Morrison and Laura Nielsen

PART II: HEALTH REGULATION AND TRADE LAW
8. TRIPs and Access to Essential Medicines
Bryan Mercurio

9. Public Perception of Food Safety Risks under WTO Law: A Normative Perspective
Alberto Alemanno

10. Pre-market Approval Systems and the SPS Agreement
Tracey Epps

11. Scope of Application of the SPS Agreement: A Post-Biotech Analysis
Jacqueline Peel

12. GATS and Public Health Care: Reflecting on an Uneasy Relationship
Panagiotis Delimatsis

13. WTO Law and Risk Factors for Non-communicable Diseases: A Complex Relationship
Tania Voon

PART III: ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION AND TRADE LAW
Section 1. Climate Change Mitigation

14. International Trade and Climate Change
Thomas Cottier and Nashina Shariff

15. Carbon Leakage Measures and Border Tax Adjustments under WTO Law
Joost Pauwelyn

16. Challenges for Technology Transfer in the Climate Change Arena: What Interactions with the TRIPS Agreement?
Dalindyebo Shabalala

17. Subsidies for Emissions Mitigation under WTO Law
Luca Rubini

18. Emission Trading Systems and WTO Law: A Typology of Interactions
Javier de Cendra de Larragán

Section 2. Other than Climate Change
19. Trade in Environmental Goods, with Focus on Climate-friendly Goods and Technologies
ZhongXiang Zhang

20. Emerging Technologies and the WTO: Comparing Biotechnology and Nanotechnology Regulations in the EU and the US
Heike Baumüller

PART IV: DISPUTE SETTLEMENT ISSUES
21. Standard of Review of Health and Environmental Regulations by WTO Panels
Lukasz Gruszczynski

PART V: EMERGING ECONOMIES AND HEALTH/ENVIRONMENTAL BARRIERS TO TRADE
22. The Impact of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures on India’s Exports and the Challenges/Opportunities of the SPS Agreement
Kasturi Das

Index