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Biosafety Measures, Technology Risks and the World Trade Organization: Thriving and Surviving in the Age of Biotech book cover

1st Edition

Biosafety Measures, Technology Risks and the World Trade Organization Thriving and Surviving in the Age of Biotech

By Alessandra Guida Copyright 2023
354 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

354 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

354 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book examines the work of the World Trade Organization (WTO), 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. By adopting an innovative interpretation of the precautionary principle and  proportionality analysis,... Read more

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

Biography

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.

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