Global Trade Negotiations Home Page Center for International Development at Harvard University (Albert Cho and Odette Yousef under the guidance of Prof. Dani Rodrik and Prof. Robert Lawrence)
Book title: "The World Trading System: Law and Policy of International Economic Relations" by John H. Jackson
gopher://gopher.law.cornell.edu/00/foreign/fletcher/BH209.txt GATT: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (1947 as amended through 1966)
Seattle December 1999 spawned protest (on the streets and in cyberspace) from a wide variety of sources with differing and sometimes conflicting agenda, which included: environmentalists; developing countries; and trade unions.
The first interdisciplinary, peer reviewed publication on the Web in the field of European Integration, at the Austrian branch of the European Communities Studies Association. Editor in Chief Michael Nentwich. Launched 10 April 1997.
Neo-Classical Economic Globalization is not a "fact of life" "I am not a trade barrier" "Equal Rights for PEOPLE" (No Superior rights for Corporations/Capital)"
Organisation for Harmonisation of African Business Law (Ohada) Treaty, 1993, Mauritius Francophone initiative, signed in Mauritius in 1993, entered into effect in July 1995 after the seventh ratification. Open to any member of the OAU (Organisation of African Unity).
"Article 3 of the Treaty has set up an organization in charge of its implementation, named 'Organisation for Harmonisation of African Business Laws, (OHADA) which comprises a Council of Ministers and a Common Court of Justice and Arbitration (CCJA). The Council of Minister is assisted by a Permanent Secretary to which is attached a Regional Institute of Magistrates installed in Porto-Novo (Benin). The seat of the CCJA is in Abidjan, and its President, Mamadou Ba from Senegal is already in office. Three "Uniform Acts" adopted in Cotonou (Benin) April 17, 1997, entered into force on January 1st, 1998, after their publication in the OHADA Official Gazette of November 1st, 1998, these are:
* the Uniform Act on General Business Law
* the Uniform Act on the Company Laws and Pooling of Economic Interest
* the Uniform Act on organization of securities
Three other Uniform Acts (on Bankruptcy law, Debt collection and Enforcement law, Accounting law) are being drafted and will probably be adopted on April 1st 1998."
A regional commercial arbitration court is to be established in Ivory Coast by the middle of 1999.
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Who owns your DNA? Genetic research that can save lives is often stymied by biotech companies' greedy patent claims. by Arthur Allen, Salon.com March 7, 2000
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