The Politics of Dispute Settlement Design: Explaining Legalism in Regional Trade Pacts

By J. M. Smith. International Organization, 2000

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Nested and overlapping regimes in the transatlantic banana trade dispute (2006, background): “Two weeks after its accession to the WTO, Ecuador joined the US suit (McCall Smith 2005).”
The EU and the new trade politics (2006, background): “Legalization, therefore, has the effect of increasing the certainty and hence the economic value of others’ commitments, albeit at the cost of greater restrictions on one’s own policy autonomy (Goldstein and Martin 2000; Smith 2000).”
The design of international trade agreements: Introducing a new dataset (2013, background): “Yet, few studies focus on selected design differences (an exception is Hafner-Burton 2005), study regional specifications (Hicks and Kim 2012) or explain functional differences in design, for example with respect to dispute settlement (Smith 2000) and flexibility provisions (Kucik 2012).”
Treaty Compliance and Violation (2010, background): “Int Organ 54:137-80 Smith TW. 2002.”