Professor Errol Mendes has authored a new book entitled Peace and Justice at the International Criminal Court: A Court of Last Resort (Edward Elgar Publishing), which addresses the broad challenge of integrating justice and peace in conflict zones around the world. Read more...

Professor Debra Steger has released a new book entitled Redesigning the World Trade Organization for the Twenty-first Century, co-published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI).

The book proposes practical ways of modernizing the World Trade Organization (WTO) to cope with the effects of the global economic crisis and to respond to the challenges of the twenty-first century.  It features contributions from well-known experts from Europe, North America, South America, and South Africa, as well as leading young scholars from the emerging economies of China and India.

Contributors focus on five areas critical to modernizing the WTO: transparency, decision- and rule-making procedures, internal management structures, participation by non-governmental organizations and civil society, and relationships with regional trade agreements.

This new book, along with Professor Jeremy de Beer’s recent publication Implementing the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Development Agenda, will be featured at a book launch and roundtable discussion at the Faculty of Law on February 9, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. in FTX 147, with a reception to follow at 5:00 p.m. in the Tsampalieros Atrium.

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Professor Nicole LaViolette, along with Mélanie Claude and Richard Poulin, has edited a new book entitled Prostitution et traite des êtres humains, enjeux nationaux et internationaux (Les Éditions L’Interligne).

The first of its kind to be published in French, this collection examines multilateral and regional treaties intended to combat sex trafficking of women and girls. Contributors, including Sigma Huda, the former United Nations' Special Rapporteur on Human Trafficking, scrutinize the progress made and the setbacks encountered in relation to existing treaties. In addition, several chapters outline the findings of researchers on issues relating to the sexual exploitation of trafficked women and children. The book also includes contributions from non-governmental organizations dedicated to combating the trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and children.

Prof. LaViolette’s chapter, “Le cadre juridique interaméricain face aux problèmes engendrés par la traite des femmes et des enfants,” critically examines treaties of the Organization of American States to determine to what extent regional treaties have had an impact on the struggle against sex trafficking of women and children in the Americas.

Prof. McRae Editor of New International Trade Law Handbook

The Oxford Handbook of International Trade Law (Oxford University Press) edited by Professor Donald McRae, Daniel Bethlehem, Rodney Neufeld ('98) and Isabelle Van Damme is now in print.
This comprehensive handbook provides commentary and critique on a wide range of questions relating to the discipline of international trade law and its intersection with states and other facets of the international system.  It also examines the economic and institutional context of the world trading system as well as its wider framework.

Prof. McRae currently holds the Hyman Soloway Chair in Business and Trade Law at uOttawa where he teaches Contracts, International Law and International Trade Law.  He is also a member of the International Law Commission. Prof. McRae was Dean of the Common Law Section between 1987 and 1994, and was past-President of the Canadian Council on International Law (1990-92).