Gregory Shaffer
Law Faculty Gregory Shaffer
Office: N230
Mondale Hall, 229 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
- P: 612-625-2630
- E: shaffer@umn.edu
Publications
Books
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Transnational Legal Ordering and State Change (Cambridge University Press, 2013) (editor)
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Dispute Settlement at the WTO: The Developing Country Experience (Cambridge University Press, 2010) (co-editor)
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When Cooperation Fails: The International Law and Politics of Genetically Modified Foods (Oxford University Press, 2009)
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The Future of Transatlantic Economic Relations: Continuity Amid Discord (European University Institute, Florence, 2005) (conference volume)
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Defending Interests: Public Private Partnerships in W.T.O. Litigation (Brookings Institution Press, 2003)
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Transatlantic Governance in the Global Economy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001) (co-editor)
Journal Articles
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Empiricism, Experimentalism, and Conditional Theory, 67 SMU Law Review 141 (2014)
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Comparative Institutional Analysis and a New Legal Realism, 2013 Wisconsin Law Review 607-628 (2013)
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International Law and Global Public Goods in a Legal Pluralist World, 23 European Journal of International Law 669-693 (2012)
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The Empirical Turn in International Legal Scholarship, 106 American Journal of International Law 1-46 (2012)
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Transnational Legal Process and State Change, 37 Law & Social Inquiry 229-264 (2012)
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- Transnationalism, Unilateralism and International Law, 1 Transnational Environmental Law 31-41 (2012)
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Criminalizing Cartels: A Global Trend?, 12 Sedona Conference Journal 313-336 (2011)
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Hard versus Soft Law in International Security, 52 Boston College Law Review 1147-1241 (2011)
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Interpretation and Institutional Choice at the WTO, 52 Virginia Journal of International Law 103-153 (2011)
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Hard vs. Soft Law: Alternatives, Complements, and Antagonists in International Governance, 94 Minnesota Law Review 706-799 (2010)
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Risk, Science, and Law in the WTO: The Centrality of Institutional Choice, 104 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law 19-23 (2010)
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Does Legal Capacity Matter? A Survey of WTO Members, 8 World Trade Review 559-577 (2009)
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How Business Shapes Law: A Socio-Legal Framework, 42 Connecticut Law Review 147-183 (2009)
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Varieties of New Legal Realism: Can a New World Order Prompt a New Legal Theory?, 95 Cornell Law Review 61-137 (2009)
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A Structural Theory of WTO Dispute Settlement: Why Institutional Choice Lies at the Center of the GMO Case, 41 New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 1-101 (2008)
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- Access to Justice in the World Trade Organization: A Case for a Small Claims Procedure?, 7 World Trade Review 587-640 (2008)
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The Trials of Winning at the WTO: What Lies Behind Brazil’s Success, 41 Cornell International Law Journal 383-501 (2008)
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- The Challenges of WTO Law: Strategies for Developing Country Adaptation, 5 World Trade Review 177-198 (2006)
- Transatlantic Economic Relations: Continuity Amid Discord, 5 European Political Science (Journal of the European Consortium for Political Research) 62-68 (2006)
- What’s New in EU Dispute Settlement? Judicialization, Public-Private Networks and the WTO Legal Order, 13 Journal of European Public Policy 832-850 (2006)
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Can WTO Technical Assistance and Capacity-Building Serve Developing Countries?, 23 Wisconsin International Law Journal 643-686 (2005)
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- Institutional Choice in the Generalized System of Preferences Case: Who Decides the Conditions for Trade Preferences? The Law and Politics of Rights, 39 Journal of World Trade 977-1008 (2005)
- The Role of the Director-General and Secretariat: Chapter IX of the Sutherland Report, 4 World Trade Review 429-438 (2005) (special issue: “Reflections on the 10th Anniversary of the WTO”)
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Transnational Mutual Recognition Regimes: Governance Without Global Government, 68 Law and Contemporary Problems (Duke Law School) 263-317 (Summer/Autumn 2005)
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- Parliamentary Oversight of WTO Rule-Making: The Political, Normative, and Practical Contexts, 7 Journal of International Economic Law 629-654 (2004)
- Recognizing Public Goods in WTO Dispute Settlement: Who Participates? Who Decides?: The Case of TRIPS and Pharmaceutical Patent Protection, 7 Journal of International Economic Law 459-482 (2004)
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Reconciling Trade and Regulatory Goals: The Prospects and Limits of New Approaches to Transatlantic Governance Through Mutual Recognition and Safe Harbor Agreements, 9 Columbia Journal of European Law 29-77 (2002)
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The World Trade Organization under Challenge: Democracy and the Law and Politics of the WTO’s Treatment of Trade and Environment Matters, 25 Harvard Environmental Law Review 1-93 (2001)
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Biotechnology: The Next Transatlantic Trade War?, 23 The Washington Quarterly 41-54 (Autumn 2000)
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Globalization and Social Protection: The Impact of EU and International Rules in the Ratcheting Up of U.S. Privacy Standards, 25 Yale Journal of International Law 1-88 (2000)
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WTO Blue-Green Blues: The Impact of U.S. Domestic Politics on Trade-Labor, Trade-Environment Linkages for the WTO’s Future, 24 Fordham International Law Journal 608-651 (2000) (special issue: “The World Trade Organization, Globalization, and the Future of International Trade”)
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An Alternative to Unilateral Immigration Controls: Toward a Coordinated U.S.-Mexico Binational Approach, 41 Stanford Law Review 187-232 (1988) (note)
Book Chapters
- The Rise of Middle-Income Countries in the International Trading System, in Law and Development of Middle-Income Countries: Avoiding the Middle-Income Trap 59-83 (Randall Peerenboom & Tom Ginsburg, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2014)
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Transnational Legal Ordering and Access to Medicines, in Patent Law in Global Perspective 97-126 (Ruth L. Okediji & Margo A. Bagley, eds., Oxford University Press, 2014)
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Transnational Legal Ordering and State Change, in Transnational Legal Ordering and State Change 1-22 (Gregory Shaffer, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2013)
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The Dimensions and Determinants of State Change, in Transnational Legal Ordering and State Change 23-49 (Gregory Shaffer, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2013)
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Conclusion: The Study of Transnational Legal Ordering, in Transnational Legal Ordering and State Change 212-215 (Gregory Shaffer, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2013)
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Hard and Soft Law, in Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations: The State of the Art 197-222 (Jeffrey L. Dunoff & Mark A. Pollack, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2013)
- The Interaction of Formal and Informal International Lawmaking, in Informal International Lawmaking 241-270 (Joost Pauwelyn, Ramses A Wessel & Jan Wouters, eds., Oxford University Press, 2012)
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The Transnational Meets the National: The Construction of Trade Policy Networks in Brazil, in Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice 170-215 (Yves Dezalay & Bryant G. Garth, eds., Routledge, 2012)
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WTO Judicial Interpretation, in The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization 535-559 (Amrita Narlikar, Martin Daunton & Robert M. Stern, eds., Oxford University Press, 2012)
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How Hard and Soft Law Interact in International Regulatory Governance: Alternatives, Complements and Antagonists, in Systemic Implications of Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation and Competition 63-129 (Simon J. Evenett & Robert M. Stern, eds., World Scientific, 2011)
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Agricultural Biotechnology Policy in the EU: Between National Fears and Global Disciplines, in Policy-Making in the European Union (Helen Wallace, William Wallace & Mark A. Pollack, eds., 6th ed., Oxford University Press, 2010)
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Extrapolating Purpose from Practice: Rebalancing or Inducing Compliance, in The Law, Economics and Politics of Retaliation in WTO Dispute Settlement (Chad P. Bown & Joost Pauwelyn, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2010)
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How Does International Law Work, in The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research 753-784 (Peter Cane & Herbert Kritzer, eds., Oxford University Press, 2010)
- Developing Country Use of the WTO Dispute Settlement System: Why It Matters, the Barriers Posed, and Its Impact on Bargaining, in Trade Disputes and the Dispute Settlement Understanding of the WTO: An Interdisciplinary Assessment (James Hartigan, ed., Emerald, 2009)
- A New Legal Realism: Method in International Economic Law Scholarship, in International Economic Law: The State and Future of the Discipline 29-42 (Colin B. Picker, Isabella D. Bunn & Douglas W. Arner, eds., Hart Publishing, 2008)
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Risk Regulation, GMOs and the Limits of Deliberation, in Unveiling the Council of the European Union: Games Governments Play in Brussels 144-164 (Daniel Naurin & Helen Wallace, eds., Palgrave MacMillan, 2008)
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Weaknesses and proposed improvements to the WTO Dispute Settlement System: an economic and market view, in 10 Anos de OMC: Uma analise do Sistema de Solucao de Controversias e Perspectivas (Luiz Olavo Baptista, Umberto Celli Junior & Alan Yanovich, eds., Edicoes Aduaneiras, 2006) (edited volume in Portuguese)
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Biotechnology Policy: Between National Fears and Global Disciplines, in Policy-Making in the European Union 329-352 (Helen Wallace, William Wallace & Mark A. Pollack, eds., Oxford University Press, 5th ed., 2005)
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Power, Governance and the WTO: A Comparative Institutional Approach, in Power in Global Governance 130-160 (Michael Barnett & Raymond Duvall, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2005)
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“Public-private Partnerships” in WTO Dispute Settlement: The US and EU Experience, in The WTO in the Twenty-first Century: Dispute Settlement, Negotiations, and Regionalism in Asia (Yasuhei Taniguchi, Alan Yanovich & Jan Bohanes, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2007) (Japanese translation published in Kokusai-Shoji-Homu (Journal of the Japanese Institute of International Business Law) (Fall 2005))
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Les Differentes Approches de la Securite Alimentaire (Comparaison Union europeen/Etats Unis), in La securite alimentaire dans l’union europeenne (Jacques Bourrinet & Francis Snyder, eds., CERIC, 2003)
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Managing US-EU Trade Relations through Mutual Recognition and Safe Harbor Agreements: “New” and “Global” Approaches to Transatlantic Economic Governance?, in Transatlantic Economic Disputes: The EU, the US, and the WTO 297-325 (Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann & Mark A. Pollack, eds., Oxford University Press, 2003)
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“If Only We Were Elephants”: The Political Economy of the WTO’s Treatment of Trade and Environment Matters, in The Political Economy of International Trade Law: Essays in Honor of Robert E. Hudec 349-393 (Daniel L. M. Kennedy and James D. Southwick, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Book Reviews
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A Transnational Take on Krisch’s Pluralist Postnational Law, 23 European Journal of International Law 565 (2012) (reviewing Nico Krisch, Beyond Constitutionalism: The Pluralist Structure of Postnational Law (Oxford University Press, 2010)) (review essay)
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- Transnational Recursivity Theory: A Review Essay of Halliday & Carruther’s Bankrupt, 9 Socio-Economic Review 371 (2011) (reviewing Terence C. Halliday & Bruce G. Carruthers, Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis (Stanford University Press, 2010))
Other Publications
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International Decision: United States—Measures Concerning the Importation, Marketing and Sale of Tuna and Tuna Products, 107 American Journal of International Law 192 (2013)