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Summary: This Letter-to-the-Editor argues that, since France's high costs for employing workers constrains business and job growth as well as company investments and entrepreneurial risk-taking, France must rapidly undertake reforms which facilitate private property ownership.
Abstract
Ownership and Self-help Will Best Protect French Employee Interests
Financial Times (London)
Jan. 2007
Abstract
Summary: This article describes how Brazil has embarked on a global campaign, assisted by civil society activists, to establish a new global paradigm of intellectual property ("IP") rights 'public interest' exceptions and limitations that threatens U.S.-based private IP assets and operations.
Brazil's IP Opportunism Threatens U.S. Private Property Rights
38 University of Miami
Inter-American Law Review (Symposium)
March 2007
Summary: This article discusses how the WTO Panel in the EC Biotech Products case reaffirmed that a scientific risk assessment rather than a hazard assessment is the definitive WTO SPS Agreement benchmark for food safety regulation purposes.
Abstract
World Trade Organization Biotech Decision Clarifies Central Role of Science in Evaluating Health and Environmental Risks for Regulation Purposes
Global Trade and Customs Journal (Kluwer Law Int'l)Vol. 2, Issue 3
March 2007
Summary: This article describes how the extra-territorial EU REACH chemicals regime is being imposed on global supply chains and likely violates WTO law.
REACH: The Fight Must Go On
Specialty Chemicals Magazine Viewpoint
March 2007
Summary: These related articles appearing in Porto Alegre, Brazil and Washington, DC review the multiple bases offered by the Brazil's Lula Government for its 'taking' of pharmaceutical patents for HIV/AIDS drugs for less than fair compensation.
Lula Disrespects Private Property by 'Taking' Foreign Investors' Private Property
Revista Leader Magazine (Instituto De Estudos Empresariais, Porto Alegre, Brazil) (Panel at XX Forum da Liberdade)
Lula Desrespeita a Propriedade Privada 'Tomando' OS DPP de Investidores Estrangeiros (p. 47)
Abstract
Forced Licensing of Drug Patents Reflects 'IP Counterfeiting' Efforts on World Stage
Washington Legal Foundation
Legal Backgrounder Vol. 22, No. 22
Summary: This Commentary describes why Congress must hold open and transparent public hearings regarding UN Law of the Sea Treaty accession.
June 2007
Abstract
LOST and Found

LOST at Sea (Response)

Vetting LOST (Rebuttal)
Washington Times Commentary
Aug. 2007
Summary: This article details how the EU and its Member States enlisted private regional environmental standards bodies to promote official government sustainable forest management policies that likely violated the WTO rights of developing country industries.
Discerning the Forest From the Trees: How Governments Use Ostensibly Private and Voluntary Standards to Avoid WTO Culpability
Abstract
Global Trade and Customs Journal (Kluwer Law Int'l)Vol. 2, Issue 9
Oct. 2007
Summary: This Op-ed describes how the LOST's environmental provisions may impair U.S. freedom of navigation & innocent passage, and consequently, U.S. military preparedness.
Sea Treaty May Sink Our Operations(coauthored)
Cape Code Times Weekend Forum
Dec. 2007

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