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The TRIPs agreement: A test of the WTO's legitimacy?

Downes, Gerard (University of Limerick, Department of Politics and Public Administration, 2010)

This paper examines the issue of legitimacy in international public law and its application to the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) agreement on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPs). Since the ...
TRIPs and food security: Implications of the WTO's TRIPS agreement for food security in the developing world (Pre-published version)

Downes, Gerard (British Food Journal, 2004)

This paper serves as a short introductory overview of the World Trade Organisation’s Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement and the extent to which it impinges on food security in the developing ...
The utilisation of agenda-setting power in the multilateral trading system's evolution from 'negative' to 'positive' integration

Downes, Gerard (Barataria, 2011)

This paper contends that the construction of a globalised intellectual property rights regime (TRIPs) within the World Trade Organization (WTO) was emblematic of the shift from ‘negative’ to ‘positive’ integration, which ...