Robert L. Howse, Professor of Law - University of Michigan faculty bio page and contact information; Curriculum Vitae

Recent Drafts and Publications

    I.  World Trade Organization Law

                1.  The Creative Evolution of World Trade - New!

                2.  Post-Hearing Submission to the International Trade Commission: World Trade Law and Renewable Energy: The Case of Non-Tariff Measures - New!

                3.  India’s WTO Challenge to Drug Enforcement Conditions in the European Community Generalized System of Preferences

                4.  A (Genetically Modified) Food Fight: Canada's WTO Challenge to Europe's Ban on GM Products

                5.  The WTO Impact on Internal Regulations -- A Case Study of the Canada -- EC Asbestos Dispute

                6.  Human Rights in the WTO: Whose Rights? What Humanity? Comments on Petersmann

                7.  How to Begin to Think About the Democratic Deficit at the WTO

                8.  Membership and its Privileges:, The WTO, Civil Society, and the Amicus Brief Controversy 

                9.  Enhancing WTO Legitimacy: Constitutionalization or Global Subsidiarity?

                10.  From Politics to Technocracy and Back Again - The Fate of the Multilateral Trading Regime

                11.  Protecting Human Rights in A Global Economy

                12.  The Appellate Body Rulings in the Shrimp/Turtle Case: A New Legal Baseline for the Trade and Environment Debate

                13.  The WTO negotiations on services: The regulatory state up for grabs

                14.  Regulation of International Trade - by Michael J. Trebilcock  Robert Howse
                       Table of Contents, etc. Sample pages of the text.

                15.  The WTO on Trial - summary

                16. The WHO/WTO Study on Trade and Public Health: A Critical Assessment

    II.  Other Areas of International Law

               1.  The Road to Baghdad is Paved with Good Intentions - abstract

    III.  Legal and Political Philosophy

                1.  Europe and the New World Order: Lessons from Alexandre Kojeve’s Engagement with Schmitt’s ‘Nomos der Erde’ - New!

                2.  Leo Strauss-Man of War? Straussianism, Iraq and the Neocons - New!

                3.  Montesquieu on Commerce, Conquest, War, and Peace - New!

                4.  The Voices of Law in Plato's Crito

                5.  The Philosophy of Law and the Legal Status and Role of Philosophy: Reflections on Leo Strauss, Philosophie und Gesetz

                6.  The Use and Abuse of Leo Strauss in the Schmitt Revival on the German Right - The Case of Heinrich Meier

                7.  Restorative Justice ~ A Conceptual Framework

                8.  Outline of a Phenomenology of Right - By Alexandre Kojéve
                    Edited by Bryan-Paul Frost
                    Translated by Bryan-Paul Frost and Robert Howse
                    Table of Contents   Reviews                 

    IV.  The Federal Vision - Co-editor, Kalypso Nicolaidis, homepage

                1.  Pride and Resentment

                2.  The Federal Vision - table of contents

                3.  Virtual Book Tour

                4.  Introduction: The Federal Vision, Levels of Governance, and Legitimacy

                5.  'This is my EUtopia . . . ': Narrative as Power  

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