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This book examines the work of the World Trade Organization, with a focus on the capacity of its judiciary to strike a reasoned balance between free trade in biotechnology and biosafety as to promote the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
List of Treaties and Declarations
List of Cases
List of Figures and Tables
Glossary
PART I Context – international trade in biotechnology
1 International trade in biotechnology and protection of biosafety: an uneasy combination
PART II Addressing normative, judicial and epistemic challenges in trading biotechnology under the WTO
2 Normative, judicial and epistemic challenges for the WTO: free trade and biosafety
3 Proportionality analysis to address WTO normative and judicial challenges in the context of biotechnology
4 The precautionary principle to address WTO epistemic challenges in the context of biotechnology
PART III Analysis of WTO biotechnology legal disputes
5 Introduction to and key reasons for a critical analysis of WTO biotechnology legal disputes
6 Allocation of the burden of proof to establish a prima facie case and standard of review to examine biotechnology matters: preliminary issues in the WTO jurisprudence on biotechnology
7 Adopting precautionary measures on biosafety in contexts of sufficient scientific evidence
8 Adopting precautionary measures on biosafety in contexts of insufficient scientific evidence
PART IV Final insights
9: Conclusion
Index
About the author
Alessandra Guida is Lecturer in Climate, Justice & Human Rights | Law and the Challenges of Technology | Corporate Environmental Law | Clinical Law in the School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast.
Summary
This book examines the work of the World Trade Organization, with a focus on the capacity of its judiciary to strike a reasoned balance between free trade in biotechnology and biosafety as to promote the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals.
