Free Trade and the Protection of Public Morals: An Analysis of the Newly Emerging Public Morals Clause Doctrine
Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: Free trade and public morality coexist in a precarious balance. On the one hand, the international trading system was founded on the principle of nondiscrimination. Countries should not disadvantage those that fail to share their geopolitical or religious views. On the other hand, the system was also founded on the notion that countries should not be forced to liberalize trade when doing so would threaten their public morality. But how is this balance defined? How does the system grant states sufficient autonomy to regulate on moral grounds while preventing states from abusing that power to enact protectionist measures in disguise?
Source: bepress Legal Repository
Author: Mark Wu
Institution: Yale University
Language: English
Topic: World Trade Organization Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2993016432