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The 14th Geneva Global Arbitration Forum

The 14th Geneva Global Arbitration Forum PANEL 4: Will State Emergency Measures trigger WTO disputes? What prospects exist for reforming the dispute settlement system of the WTO - professional panelists, retroactive remedies, monetary compensation? Charles spoke about the last panel entering the Bermuda triangle, so what happens to the last speaker on the last panel? I wish I could disappear! Especially because I am substituting for the real expert and I am no expert on anything that has been spoken about here in this panel. I am going to be talking about something that I am an expert in, which is intellectual property and more particularly, the TRIPS Agreement. I am going to draw a tenuous link between my area of expertise and the subject that we are discussing on this panel, which is emergency measures. And the way I am going to do it is to tell you that emergencies may not just revolve around the economic crisis. I think the world has been lurching from one crisis to another in the last few years - unprecedented crises - ranging from pandemics, such as the Hiv/AiDS pandemic, to the food crisis with acute food shortages, to the oil price hikes and then, of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of World Investment and Trade Brill

The 14th Geneva Global Arbitration Forum

Journal of World Investment and Trade , Volume 10 (5): 4 – Jan 1, 2009
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PANEL 4: Will State Emergency Measures trigger WTO disputes? What prospects exist for reforming the dispute settlement system of the WTO - professional panelists, retroactive remedies, monetary compensation? Charles spoke about the last panel entering the Bermuda triangle, so what happens to the last speaker on the last panel? I wish I could disappear! Especially because I am substituting for the real expert and I am no expert on anything that has been spoken about here in this panel. I am going to be talking about something that I am an expert in, which is intellectual property and more particularly, the TRIPS Agreement. I am going to draw a tenuous link between my area of expertise and the subject that we are discussing on this panel, which is emergency measures. And the way I am going to do it is to tell you that emergencies may not just revolve around the economic crisis. I think the world has been lurching from one crisis to another in the last few years - unprecedented crises - ranging from pandemics, such as the Hiv/AiDS pandemic, to the food crisis with acute food shortages, to the oil price hikes and then, of

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Published: Jan 1, 2009

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