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REACHing For Your Wallets Or Your Lives

Summary:  This article discusses how, despite the WTO Panel's ruling in the Biotech Products dispute, the EU decided to adopt the Precautionary Principle-based REACH regulation.

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REACH: A Disguised Trade Barrier That 'Takes' Private Property and Facilitates Global Regulatory Governance


​Summary:  This article discusses how the extra-territorial EU REACH regulation violates WTO law because it imposes significant costs and burdens on global industry.



Invasion of the Property Snatchers


Summary:  This article discusses how U.S. politicians abducted by Aliens are silently replacing U.S. citizen's private property with public goods as they sleep.



​Beware of the Flying Dutchman When Traveling to Brussels​


​Summary:  This article discusses why the EU REACH regulation's author placed an antagonistic article in the Conde Nast Traveler magazine.


EU Trade Protectionism Must Yield to Non-EU Market Access Demands 
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Summary:  This article addresses former WTO Director General Pascal Lamy's discussion of the relationship between WTO and non-WTO law. 

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​​Polluting the Future of the WTO


​Summary:  This article discusses former WTO Director General Pascal Lamy's discussion of the possible future course for the WTO.

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​Terminating Global Warming, Energy Dependence or Private Property Rights?


​Summary: This article discusses the possible objectives of the Western Governors' Clean Energy Plan.



​​Corporate Social Restriction  (co-authored)


​Summary: This article discusses how the EU Commission is trying to reclaim the hijacked concept of corporate social responsibility as a voluntary industry initiative.



​DP World Erects Legal Firewall in the Face of Political Firestorm


​Summary: This article discusses how the media furor over DP World's proposed acquisition of U.S. port concessions was politically motivated. 
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