This volume focuses attention on world trade regulation issues in Australia. Published in the shadows of the Australia-USA Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) in 2004, it takes a wide-ranging and sceptical approach to the area. It features:

an examination of the WTO through the lens of globalisation (Camilleri and Myconos);
the case against the AUSFTA (Garnaut);
the CER Agreement (Walker);
the question of special and differential treatment of LDCs within the WTO (Chen);
the WTO and Islamic Law (Bhala);
national treatment under the WTO (McMahon);
intellectual property protection (Drahos and Braithwaite);
FDI and the WTO (Sornarajah);
trade in services (Islam);
labour law issues (Murray); and
environmental issues (Harris).

Balancing Act is a special issue (Volume 21) of the journal Law in Context. The contents are listed below. You can read the abstract for each chapter by clicking on its title. You can purchase a single copy of this issue through this page, or subscribe to the journal from the journal page.