Trade law Part 6

International Harmonisation of Designs Law: the Case for Diversity
ANNA KINGSBURY
European Intellectual Property Review
Volume 32, Issue 8, 2010 p.382

This article reviews the existing models for and approaches to design protection, and international law requirements relating to designs protection. Designs laws are not internationally harmonised, and there is no empirical evidence that there exists a universally optimal level or model of designs protection. It is argued that the absence of highly prescriptive international agreements harmonising designs law provides an unusual level of freedom for each jurisdiction to craft a designs law regime suited to its own social and economic conditions and trade situation, and that this flexibility constitutes a real benefit to individual states and to the international community.

On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Western Africa -Ghislaine Lydon
James L.A. Webb
Law and History Review
Volume 28, Number 4, November 2010 p.1111

Digital Trade in WTO-Law–Taking SLaw Journal / Law Reviewk and Looking Ahead
Weber, Rolf H.
Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy
Volume 5, Number 1, March 2010 p.1

Trade mark Law
International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law
Volume 41, Number 6, 2010

EU competition law issues of standard setting by officially-entrusted versus private organisations
CHRISTIAN KOENIG AND KRISTIN SPIEKERMANN
European Competition Law Review
Volume 31, Issue 11, 2010 p.449

Standardisation of products and processes guarantees both their vertical and horizontal interoperability and removes trade barriers. Although this is desirable from a competition policy point of view, horizontal and vertical collaboration of market participants in principle subject to restrictions by competition law. The article elucidates the specific antitrust law requirements for a collaborative development of industry standards within the framework of EC competition law.

Global Administrative law Perspective of the WTO Aid for Trade Initiative
Marceau, Gabrielle; Illy, Ousseni
International Organizations Law Review
Volume 6, Number 2, 2009 p.479-498

Trade Mark Law
International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law
Volume 41, Number 5, 2010

The SADC Trade Agenda, A Tool to Facilitate Regional Commercial law : An Analysis
Amos Saurombe
South African Mercantile Law Journal
Volume 21, Number 5, 2009 p.695

Private Antitrust Litigation in the European Union-Why Does the EC Want to Embrace What the US Federal Trade Commission is Trying to Avoid?
KENT BERNARD
Global Competition Litigation Review
Volume 3, Issue 2, 2010 p.69

Private litigation is not simply an add on to a competition law regime. U.S. substantive law encourages free-wheeling competition, firms are invited to be aggressive, and the litigation system looks to private parties to vindicate their own rights (with the Government handling criminal cases). EU substantive law was designed for government enforcement, is far more restrictive in terms of what firms may do, and relies on the discretion of the enforcer. The recent approach of the U.S. FTC is to try to mimic the EU approach-broad authority where there is no private right of action. To graft the U.S. style litigation system on the EU substantive matrix, may result in the worst of both worlds, not the best.

From Importation of Slaves to Migration of Laborers: The Struggle to Outlaw American Participation in the Chinese Coolie Trade and the Seeds of United States Immigration Law
Renee C. Redman
Albany Government Law Review
Volume 3, Number 1, 2010 p.1

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