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Publications Meredith Lewis

Authored book

  • (with Susy Frankel) Trade Agreements at the Crossroads (Routledge, Oxford, 2013) 270pp
  • (with Bryan Mercurio) International Business Law (Oxford University Press, London, 2009) 548pp.

                Edited book

                • (with Susy Frankel (eds)) International Economic Law and National Autonomy (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010) pp 346.

                Edited journal

                • New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law Special Conference Issue: The Executive 4(1) (Wellington, New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law, 2006) pp 146.
                • Victoria University of Wellington Law Review: Trade Special Issue 37(3) (Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington, 2006) pp 130.

                Book chapters

                • "The Embedded Liberalism Compromise in the Making of the GATT and Uruguay Round Agreements" in Gillian Moon and Lisa Toohey (eds) The Future of International Economic Integration: The Embedded Liberalism Compromise Revisited (Cambridge University Press, 2018) SSRN.
                • "Dissents" in Simon Lester and Bryan Mercurio (eds) Research Handbook on WTO Dispute Settlement (Edward Elgar, 2018) SSRN.
                • "International Political Economy and the Prisoner’s Dilemma: Compliance with International Law" in Alberta Fabbricotti (ed) The Political Economy of International Law: A European Perspective (Edward Elgar, 2016) SSRN.
                • "When Popular Decisions Rest on Shaky Foundations: Implications of Selected WTO Appellate Body Jurisprudence" in Julien Chaisse and Tsai-yu Lin (eds) International Economic Law and Governance: Essays in Honour of Mitsuo Matsushita (Oxford University Press, 2016) SSRN.
                • "The United States’ Path to Concluding the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Will TPA + TAA = TPP?" in C Herrmann, M Krajewski and J Terhechte (eds) European Yearbook of International Economic Law (Vol 7, Springer, Switzerland, 2016).
                • "The Australia-New Zealand-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement" in Lorand Bartels, Simon Lester and Bryan Mercurio (eds) Bilateral and Regional Trade Agreements: Case Studies (2nd ed Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2016).
                • "The TPP as a Potential New Paradigm for Trade Agreements: Implications and Opportunities" in María Celia Toro Hernández (ed) El TLCAN Frente a Nuevas Negociaciones Comerciales Regionales: ElL TPP Y El TTIP (2015) (translated into Spanish).
                • "Development and the TPPA" in Tania Voon (ed) Trade Liberalisation and International Co-operation: A Legal Analysis of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2013) pp 28-49.
                • (with Peter LH van den Bossche) "What to do When Disagreement Strikes? The Complexity of Dispute Settlement under Trade Agreements" in Susy Frankel and Meredity Kolsky Lewis (eds) Trade Agreements at the Crossroads (Routledge, Oxford, 2013) pp 9-25.
                • (with Susy Frankel, Chris Nixon and John Yeabsley) "The Challenges of Trans-Tasman Intellectual Property Coordination" in Susy Frankel and Deborah Ryder (eds) Recalibrating Behaviour: Smarter Regulation in a Global World (LexisNexis, Wellington, 2013) pp 101-138.
                • (with Susy Frankel, Chris Nixon and John Yeabsley) "The Web of Trade Agreements and Alliances and Impacts on Regulatory Autonomy" in Susy Frankel and Deborah Ryder (eds) Recalibrating Behaviour: Smarter Regulation in a Global World (LexisNexis, Wellington, 2013) pp 17-62 SSRN.
                • "Achieving a Free Trade Agreement of the Asia-Pacific: Does the TPP Present the Most Attractive Path?" in CL Lim, Deborah Elms and Patrick Low (eds) The Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Quest for a Twenty-First Century Trade Agreement (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012) pp 223-241.
                • (with Susy Frankel) "Trade Agreements and Regulatory Autonomy: The Effect on National Interests" in Susy Frankel (ed) Learning from the Past, Adapting for the Future: Regulatory Reform in New Zealand (Wellington, LexisNexis, 2011) pp 411-444 SSRN.
                • "The Politics and Indirect Effects of Asymmetrical Bargaining Power in Free Trade Agreements" in Tomer Broude, Marc Busch and Amelia Porges (eds) The Politics of International Economic Law (London, Cambridge University Press, 2011) pp 2-39.
                • "Open Accession Provisions in FTAs: A Bridge Between Regionalism andn Multilateralism?" in Multilateralism and Regionalism in Global Economic Governance: Trade, Investment and Finance (Routledge, 2011).
                • "Safety Standards and Indigenous Products: What Role for Traditional Knowledge?" in Meredith Kolsky Lewis and Susy Frankel (eds) International Economic Law and National Autonomy (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010) pp 169-191.
                • "The Prisoners' Dilemma and FTAs: Applying Game Theory to Trade Liberalization Strategy" in Challenges to Multilateral Trade The Impact of Bilateral, Preferential and Regional Agreements Ross Buckley, Vai Io Lo and Laurence Boulle (eds) (Wolters Kluwer, The Netherlands, 2008) pp 21-39.

                Journal articles

                • "TPP and RCEP: Implications of Mega-FTAs for Global Governance" (2015) 52 Social Science Japan pp 11-13.
                • "Human Rights Provisions in Free Trade Agreements: Do the Ends Justify the Means?" (2014) 12(1) Loyola University Chicago International Law Review pp 1-22 SSRN.
                • (with Andrew D Mitchell) "Food Miles: Environmental Protection or Disguised Protectionism? (2014) 35 Michigan Journal of International Law pp 579-636 SSRN.
                • "The TPP and the RCEP (ASEAN + 6) as Potential Parths Toward Deeper Asian Economic Integration" (2013) 8 Asian Journal of WTO and International Health Law and Policy pp 359-378 SSRN.
                • "Plurilateral Trade Negotiations: Supplanting or Supplementing the Multilateral Trading System?" (2013) 17(17) Insights online pdf.
                • "Australians get their First Taste of New Zealand Apples in Ninety Years" (2011) 15(25) ASIL Insights.
                • "The Prisoner's Dilemma Posed by Free Trade Agreements: Can Open Access Provisions Provide an Escape?" (2011) 11 Chicago Journal of International Law pp 631-661 SSRN.
                • "The Trans-Pacific Partnership: New Paradigm or Wolf in Sheep's Clothing?" (2011) 34 Boston College International and Comparative Law Review pp 27-52 SSRN.
                • "Dissent as Dialectic: Horizontal and Vertical Disagreement in WTO Dispute Settlement" (2010) 48 Stanford Journal of International Law pp 631 SSRN.
                • "Expanding the P-4 Agreement into a Broader Trans-Pacific Partnership: Implications and Opportunities" (2009) 4 Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law & Politics pp 401-422 SSRN.
                • "The EU's Protectionism Problem" Summer/Fall 2009 Georgetown Journal of International Affairs pp 23-29.
                • "WTO Winners and Losers: The Trade and Development Disconnect" (2007) 39(1) Georgetown Journal of International Law pp165-198.
                • "The Lack of Dissent in WTO Dispute Settlement" (2006) 9(4) Journal of International Economic Law pp 895-931 SSRN.
                • "Good News for New Zealand Wineries? The Potential Impact of Granholm v Heald" (2005) 11 NZ Business Law Quarterly pp 246-252.
                • "The Free Trade Agreement Paradox" (2005) 21(4) NZ Universities Law Review pp 554-574.
                • "Comments on Luke Nottage's Paper" (2005) 36 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review pp 859-862
                • "Justice William Johnson and the History of the Supreme Court Dissent" (1995) 83 Geo Law Journal pp 2069-2098.

                Book reviews

                • Book Review: The prospects of International Trade Regulation: From Fragmentation to Coherence edited by Thomas Cottier and Panagiotis Delimatsis' (2012) World Trade Review, 11 pp 346-349.
                • Book Review: International Trade Law of the WTO by Rafiqul Islam (2007) September New Zealand Law Journal pp 285-286.

                Short articles

                • "Plurilateral Trade Negotiations: Supplanting the Multilateral Trading System (2013) 17 ASIL Insights reprinted with permission at 2 Practical Trade and Customs Strategies p 3.
                • "World Trade: The New Zealand - Australia Apple Dispute" April 2007 New Zealand Law Journal pp 85-86.
                • "Foreword" (2006) 4 NZ Journal of Public and International Law pp vii-viii.
                • "Foreword" (2006) 37(3) Victoria University of Wellington Law Review pp 339-340.
                • "World Trade: Food Miles: Environmental Movement or Disguised Protectionism?" (December 2006) NZLJ pp 404-405.
                • "World Trade: The Doha Round Collapse and the EU Butter Row" (October 2006) NZLJ pp 331-332.

                Conference and oral presentations

                • "TPP and RCEP (ASEAN + 6) as Competing Models for Asian Integration" at Asia WTO Research Annual Conference & ACWH at 10 "Asia's Plurilateral Trade Agreements: TPP, ASEAN and Beyond" (Taipei, June 2013).
                • "Progress of the TPP Negotiations and a Related Development" at Trade Policy Roundtable, Cordell Hutt Institute (Washington DC, June 2013).
                • "The Web of Trade Agreements and Alliances and Impact on Regulatory Autonomy" Recalibrating Behaviour: Smarter Regulation in a Global World (Wellington, April 2013).
                • (with Susy Frankel) "Trade Agreements and Regulatory Autonomy: The Effect on National Interests" NZ Law Foundation Regulatory Reform Project Workshop (Wellington, August 2012).
                • "Chair: Session 4" The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Issues and Implications (Melbourne, August 2012).
                • "Development and the TPPA" The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Issues and Implications (Melbourne, August 2012).
                • "The Trans-Pacific Partnership and China: Friend or Foes?" at China and the Future of the Multilateral Trading System: In Commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of China's Accession to the WTO, Shanghai WTO Affairs Consultation Centre Conference (Shanghai, November, 2011).
                • "The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Can it Expand into a Free Trade Agreement of the Asia-Pacific" World Trade Organization Public Forum (Geneva, September, 2011).
                • "Horizontal and Vertical Disagreement in WTO Dispute Settlement" presentation to the World Trade Organization Appellate Body and Appellate Body Secretariat (Geneva, June 2011).
                • "Zeroing": The Impact of Persistent Litigation on the Role of "Precedent" in Dispute Settlement in the Trading System at Eleventh Annual WTO Conference (London, May, 2011).
                • "In Defense of Disagreement? Dissents, Disregard for Precedent, and other Disruptions in WTO Dispute Settlement", Faculty Research Workshop Presentation (Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC, March, 2011).
                • "The TPP, ASEAN and East Asian Agreements" at Present at the Beginning: The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Trade Agreement (Hong Kong, February, 2011).
                • "Lessons from the WTO's Zeroing Disputes" at Society of International Economic Law Biennial Conference (Barcelona, July, 2010).
                • "The Value of Separate Opinions in WTO Dispute Settlement" at British Institute of International and Comparative Law Tenth Annual WTO Conference (London, May, 2010).
                • "The Trans-Pacific Partnership" at Georgetown University Law Centre, Institute of International Economic Law presentation (Washington DC, March 29, 2010).
                • Session Chair and Commentator "Contemporary Trade Agreement Challenges and Opportunities" New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law Conference, Trade Agreements: Where Do We Go from Here? (Wellington, 22 October, 2009).
                • Session Chair "Other International Trade Topics" at Asian International Economic Law Network Inaugural Conference, Multilateralism and Regionalism in Global Economic Governance: Trade, Investment and Finance (Tokyo, August 3, 2009).
                • "Open Accession Provisions in FTAs: A Bridge between Regionalism and Multilateralism?" at Asian International Economic Law Network Inaugural Conference, Multilateralism and Regionalism in Global Economic Governance: Trade, Investment and Finance (Tokyo, August 3, 2009).
                • Session Chair, "The World Trading System" Australia New Zealand Society of International Law Conference The Future of Multilateralism in a Plural World (Wellington, July 3, 2009).
                • "Selected Provisions of the TPP and of the Trade Agreements of TPP members" at Auckland University Law School Colloquium on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (Auckland, June, 2009).
                • "Expanding the P-4 Agreement into a Broader Trans-Pacific Partnership: Implications and Opportunities" at Asian WTO Research Network Conference International Conference on the Future of the WTO (Taipei, May 2009).
                • "Prospects for an Australia/New Zealand International Economic Law Network" at Australian Attorney-General's International Trade Law Conference (Canberra, April 2009).
                • "Safety Standards and Indigenous Products: What Role for Traditional Knowledge?" Staff Seminar at Melbourne University Law School (Melbourne, April 2009).
                • "SPS and Indigenous Products: What Role for Traditional Knowledge?" at Institute for International Law and the Humanities, Melbourne University Law School (Melbourne, April 2009).
                • "Political Influence and Free Trade Agreement Policy" at the American Society of International Law International Economic Law Interest Group 2008 Biennial Interest Group Conference: The Politics of International Economic Law: The Next Four Years (Washington DC, November 2008).
                • Chair and Commentator "International Economic Law and National Autonomy: Convergence or Divergence?" NZCIEL Conference (Wellington, 14-15 December 2007).
                • (with Barry Coates and Mark Sinclair ) "Panel Discussion: Trade and Development: Current Issues" (Wellington, November 2007).
                • (with Penny Ridings) "Developments in International Trade Law" Beeby Colloquium (Wellington, August 2007).
                • Presentation to the New Zealand Judiciary on Free Trade Agreements (Wellington, July 2007).
                • "WTO Teaching Materials and Research Resources" at Advanced Symposium on WTO Law, University of Indonesia (Depok, July 2007).
                • "Decision-making at WTO" at Advanced Symposium on WTO Law, University of Indonesia (Depok, July 2007).
                • "WTO Disciplines on National and Agricultural Policies and Practices" at Advanced Symposium on WTO Law, University of Indonesia (Depok, July 2007).
                • WTO Rules on Trade Related Investment Measures" at Advanced Symposium on WTO Law, University of Indonesia (Depok, July 2007).
                • "Rules on Market Access" at Advanced Symposium on WTO Law, University of Indonesia (Depok, July 2007).
                • "The Role of Subsequent Practice and the WTO's Zeroing Jurisprudence" at British Institute of International and Comparative Law Seventh Annual WTO Conference (London, May 2007).
                • "The Prisoner's Dilemma and Free Trade Agreements: An Application of Game Theory" at Trade Liberalisation Strategy Conference at Bond University Free Trade Agreements: Where is the World Heading? (Gold Coast 9-10 March 2007).