The Enduring Enigma of TRIPS: A Challenge for the World Economic System
Author:
Frederick M. Abbott
Journal of International Economic Law, Vol. 1, Issue 4, pp. 497-521, 1998
This special issue on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS) is introduced with a perspective that focuses on the urgency of narrowing the gap in living standards between the rich nations and the poor.
Reflection Paper on China in the World Trading System: Defining the Principles of Engagement
Author:
Frederick M. Abbott
in CHINA IN THE WORLD TRADING SYSTEM: DEFINING THE PRINCIPLES OF ENGAGEMENT, pp. 1-43, F.M. Abbott, ed., Kluwer Law International 1998
China's prospective membership in the World Trade Organization is one of the most significant developments relating to international institutions to take place in the past several decades.
The WTO TRIPS Agreement and Global Economic Development
Author:
Frederick M. Abbott
in PUBLIC POLICY AND GLOBAL TECHNOLOGICAL INTEGRATION 39-65 (eds. F. M. Abbott & D. Gerber) (Kluwer Law International 1997), also published as 72 Chi-Kent L. Rev. 385 (1996-97)
The optimal approach to creating and maintaining an equitable balance in the international IPRs system will likely involve a combination of approaches.
Public Policy and Global Technological Integration: An Introduction
Author:
Frederick M. Abbott
in PUBLIC POLICY AND GLOBAL TECHNOLOGICAL INTEGRATION 3-13 (eds. F. M. Abbott & D. Gerber) (Kluwer Law International 1997), also published in 72 Chi-Kent L. Rev. 345 (1996-97)
Foundation Building for Western Hemispheric Integration
Author:
Frederick M. Abbott
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business, Vol. 17, 1996-97
The creation of the NAFTA and the negotiation of the FTAA are profoundly important political and economic developments for the United States, just as the creation of the European Economic Community and the widening of the European Union are profoundly important political and economic developments on the other side of the Atlantic.
Regional Integration Mechanisms in the Law of the United States: Starting Over
Author:
Frederick M. Abbott
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Vol. 1, 1993, at 155-84
This contribution will focus on the legal system of the United States and will consider the recent bias of the U.S. Congress toward according a non-self-executing character to RIMs to which the United States has become party.
This article addresses NAFTA's environment-related dispute settlement mechanisms and how these might serve as a prototype for other regional integration efforts.
Regional Integration and the Environment: The Evolution of Legal Regimes
Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 68, 1992, pp. 173-201
This Essay considers one aspect of the regional integration phenomenon, examining it in the specific context of its present and potential impact on regimes for the protection of the environment.
The Scope of U.S. Senate Control Over the Conclusion and Operation of Treaties
Author:
Stefan A. Riesenfeld and Frederick M. Abbott
in PARLIAMENTARY PARTICIPATION IN THE MAKING AND OPERATION OF TREATIES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY 261, S. Riesenfeld & F. Abbott eds., Martinus Nijhoff 1994, also published in 67 Chi.-Kent Law Review No. 571, 1991
This article will briefly describe the basic allocation of the treaty power in the United States and the status of treaty law in the municipal legal system. These matters are the subject of a number of excellent studies by American and foreign scholars. Our main concern, however, is with a particular feature of the constitutional landscape-the role which the Senate plays in the treaty-making process through the attachment of qualifications to resolutions of ratification; namely amendments, reservations, understandings, declarations, and provisos. We are concerned with the effect these conditions are accorded by the President, United States courts, and the international community.
GATT and the European Community: A Formula for Peaceful Coexistence
Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol. 12, No. 1, 1990
This article addresses the relationship between the GATT, the European Community and other RTAs as and when trade in services and other 'new areas' are incorporated into the GATT framework.
Protecting First World Assets in the Third World: Intellectual Property Negotiations in the GATT Multilateral Framework
Author:
Frederick M. Abbott
22 Vand. J. of Transnat'l L. 689 (1989)
This article addresses industrialized countries' growing concerns over technology transfer and their efforts to obtain protection of intellectual property rights under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
Bargaining Power and Strategy in the Foreign Investment Process: A Current Andean Code Analysis
Author:
Frederick M. Abbott
3 Syracuse J. of Int'l L. & Comm. 319 (1975)
In 1970, the countries of the Andean Common Market (the Andean Pact or ANCOM), adopted uniform foreign investment regulations. The Andean Foreign Investment Code, as Decision 24 of the Andean Commission is called, regulates both the treatment of foreign capital entering or within ANCOM, and related agreements on the transfer of technology, patents, licenses, and royalties. The member countries of ANCOM were required by Decision 24 to implement this Code as domestic legislation following its adoption by the Andean Commission.