News from the ACWL
ACWL holds Seminar on Giving Legal Effect to the Results of the Doha Round
On 8 June 2006 the ACWL held a seminar analysing, comparing and assessing the main methods available to give legal effect to the results of the Doha Round. The purpose of the seminar was to discuss a draft ACWL background paper entitled Giving Effect to the Results of the Doha Round: An Analysis of the Methods of Changing WTO Law.
54 delegates and lawyers attended the seminar and engaged in the discussions, including 31 from developing and least developed countries and 13 from developed countries, the WTO Secretariat and the ICTSD. Following presentations by the staff of the Centre, Professor John H. Jackson of the Georgetown University Law Centre commented on the paper and provided his views on how WTO jurisprudence ought to evolve to allow the law of the multilateral trading system to adequately respond to changing circumstances.
The draft ACWL background paper will be revised in light of the discussion and once finalised will be made available on the ACWL website.