Party Funding and Campaign Financing in International Perspective (Hart Publishing, 2006)
Professor George Bermann has organized an annual workshop which brings together Columbia Law School and the University of London to discuss pressing comparative law issues. The result of the first workshop is this collaborative volume which deals with the salient questions of political party funding and campaign financing in the specific context of a number of national settings. The studies presented here show that financing questions cannot be addressed independent of the constitutional conventions of the country, the nature of the political parties in the country, and the means of access to publication and the media in any given nation. The national studies in this volume reveal a rich diversity in the approach to regulation in Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, New Zealand, Quebec, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Trade and Human Health and Safety (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Columbia Law School Professors George Bermann and Petros Mavroidis have collaborated to create the first volume of the Columbia Law School series on "The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization." This series is based on papers presented in the Seminar in WTO Law and Policy organized every year at Columbia Law School and reflects the varied and vital aspects of the WTO integration process.
Developing countries comprise the majority of the membership of the World Trade Organization. Many developing countries believe that the welfare gains that were supposed to ensue from the establishment of the WTO and the results of the Uruguay Round remain largely elusive. This book examines the different aspects of law within the WTO and how the developing countries are reacting to the Doha Developmental round, and also examines the differences between what the developing countries require and what they expect from the WTO, which is not homogenous.
