Resources about the GATS and Legal Services

Prepared by Professor Laurel S. Terry, LTerry@psu.edu

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Useful Research Tools Regarding the GATS and Legal Services

· GATS: A Handbook for International Bar Association Member Bars (May 2002)

· ABA Center for Professional Responsibility Webpage Devoted to the GATS and Legal Services (comprehensive website with numerous links and primary source material)

· Selected Documents of the WTO WPDR [WTO Working Party on Domestic Regulation](Webpage by Laurel Terry includes WTO & other documents related to Track 2 of the GATS and the “Disciplines” issue)

· Webpage of the IBA WTO Working Group Webpage

· WTO Documents Online Webpage

Articles By Laurel Terry about the GATS

· Laurel S. Terry, Lawyers, GATS, and the WTO Accountancy Disciplines: The History of the WTO’s Consultation, the IBA GATS Forum and the September 2003 IBA Resolutions, 22 Penn State Int’l L. Rev 695 (2004)

· Laurel S. Terry, But What Will the WTO Disciplines Apply To? Distinguishing Among Market Access, National Treatment and Article VI:4 Measures When Applying the GATS to Legal Services, 2003 Symposium The Professional Lawyer 83 (2004)

• Laurel S. Terry, GATS' Applicability to Transnational Lawyering and its Potential Impact on U.S. State Regulation of Lawyers, 34 Vanderbilt J. Transnational Law 989 (2001) as revised 35 Vanderbilt J. Transnational Law 1387 (2002)

• Laurel S. Terry, A Challenge to the ABA and the U.S. Legal Profession to Monitor the GATS 2000 Negotiations: Why You Should Care, Symposium Issue of The Professional Lawyer 63 (2001)

GATS Updates

• Laurel S. Terry, Carole Silver, Ellyn Rosen, Carol Needham, Robert E. Lutz, Peter D. Ehrenhaft, Transnational Legal Practice: 2006-07 Year-in-Review, 42 Int’l L. 833 (2008)(includes 2006-07 GATS developments)
• Laurel S. Terry, Current Developments Regarding the GATS and Legal Services: The Suspension of the Doha Round, “Disciplines” Developments, and Other Issues, 76 The Bar Examiner 27 (Feb. 2007)

· Laurel S. Terry, Current Developments Regarding the GATS and Legal Services: The Hong Kong Ministerial Conference and the Australian Disciplines Paper, 75 The Bar Examiner 26 (Feb. 2006)

· Laurel S. Terry, The GATS and Legal Services: The Resumed GATS Negotiations Trigger U.S. and Other Activity, 75 The Bar Examiner 43 (Feb. 2005)

· Laurel S. Terry, Further Developments Regarding the GATS and Legal Services: Extending the Accountancy Disciplines to Lawyers, The Bar Examiner 34 (Aug. 2004)

· Laurel S. Terry, Current Developments Regarding the GATS and Legal Services: The Cancun Ministerial GATS Negotiations, The Bar Examiner 38 (Feb. 2004)

· Laurel S. Terry, Latest Developments Regarding the GATS and Legal Services, The Bar Examiner 27 (Aug. 2003)

· Laurel S. Terry, The GATS, Foreign Lawyers and Two Recent Developments: Could Your State’s Actions Affect U.S. Trade Policy?, The Bar Examiner 20 (Nov. 2002)

· Laurel S. Terry, GATS, Legal Services and Bar Examiners: Why Should You Care?, The Bar Examiner 25 (May 2002)

Other Material

· Laurel S. Terry, Presentation: Skills Transfer in Developing Jurisdictions, International Bar Association, Third Annual Bar Leaders’ Conference, May 14, 2008

· Laurel S. Terry, Presentation: International Trade and Licensing Issues with Outsourcing, University of California, Berkeley, Institute for Global Challenges and the Law Program: INTERNATIONAL OUTSOURCING OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION (April 25, 2008)

· Laurel S. Terry, The GATS and Legal Services in Limerick, 15 Michigan St. J. Int’l L. 635 (2007)

· Terry Submissions to the United Nations’ Statistics Divisions regarding Classifications for Legal Services (the U.N. efforts are relevant to the GATS because the GATS Sectoral Classification List, W/120, cites to the U.N. classifications):

Ø Terry Powerpoint Presentation to the Technical Subgroup of the Expert Group on International Economic and Social Classifications, U.N. Statistics Division, Oct. 18, 2004

Ø Materials Submitted to the Technical subgroup (TSG) of the Expert Group on International Economic and Social Classifications by Prof. Laurel S. Terry, representing the International Bar Association

(191 page pdf file collecting classification information for legal services)

· Terry Powerpoint Presentation to the WTO Workshop on Domestic Regulation, March 29, 2004 – submitted on behalf of the International Bar Association regarding the application of the WTO Accountancy Disciplines to the legal profession

Ø Index to Supporting Materials Submitted to the March 2004 WTO Workshop on Domestic Regulation

• Terry Testimony to the USTR About the GATS Negotiations, Oct. 2002
• Terry Interview with “Crossing the Bar.Com” about NAFTA, GATS, and the EU Regulation of Lawyers (May and Dec. 2001)

· GATS: A Handbook for International Bar Association Member Bars (May 2002) [drafted by Laurel Terry and Jonathan Goldsmith]