TradeLawGuide

TradeLawGuide

Access

TradeLawGuide is available onsite and offsite to all academic members of IALS Library.

Content

TradeLawGuide Law includes many features for researching WTO law, including:

• WTO and GATT jurisprudence
• Commentary on WTO jurisprudence
• Procedural documents from WTO cases
• Jurisprudence citators showing how WTO/GATT cases have been cited subsequently
• WTO and pre-WTO agreements and other instruments, with annotations
• An article citator showing how provisions of WTO agreements/instruments have been cited in WTO jurisprudence (see ‘Quick Lookup’, or ‘Agreements…’)
• Information about pending cases
• Terms & Phrases, an index to definitions in WTO agreements and jurisprudence
• Uruguay Round negotiating documents

Browsing and searching 

You can browse TradeLawGuide by type of document, subject and other criteria.

The main page has a simple search facility covering the whole of TradeLawGuide. For advanced search options, see the Text Search tab. Quick Lookup (on the main page) finds WTO/GATT cases by agreement and provision number. Use the Jurisprudence Citators to check whether a case has been cited in subsequent cases.

Reading and downloading

Content on TradeLawGuide is available to read online in HTML or PDF format, the majority of which are fully accessible. Content can also be downloaded in PDF format.

To print a list of citations from the Jurisprudence Citator, click on the printer icon.

Help

The main page provides an overview of the database, and a ‘Getting Started’ guide.

Each collection (e.g. Commentaries) and each research tool (e.g. Jurisprudence Citators) has a ‘More about’ option.

Additional help is available via the ‘Learning Centre’ link at the top of every page.