Publication
title
Non-governmental Organizations and the World Trade Organization
DATE
June 11, 2002
EXPERTISE
It is not so any more that businesses must stand by and watch from the sidelines as WTO dispute settlement proceedings wind their way to judgements with heavy consequence for the industry involved. Today businesses may actively participate in WTO dispute settlement proceedings as amicus curiae, or "friends of the court".
Amicus briefs have now been received by a number of WTO panels. As a result there there is a real opportunity for businesses to influence their own government's laws by participating as amicus in the WTO dispute settlement process.
(To obtain the full text, please contact Gregory O. Somers or Denis Gascon).
Contacts
Denis Gascon
Montréal
514.847.4435
dgascon@ogilvyrenault.com
Profile
Gregory O. Somers
Ottawa
613.780.1542
gsomers@ogilvyrenault.com
Profile
