Welcome

TradeLawGuide sets a new standard for researching World Trade Organization (WTO) law. Our groundbreaking tools are designed to facilitate fast, comprehensive and methodical research using proprietary software. You can review thousands of pages of documents and be directed to pinpoint references. Time-consuming searches can now be conducted systematically and quickly, allowing you to research WTO law at a level of detail never before available.

"Researching WTO law has become increasingly more of a challenge with over 300 decisions now issued. TradeLawGuide’s cutting edge technology enables our MILE students to research WTO law quickly and easily. Its tools provide an efficient means to improve the comprehensiveness of their research."

Professor Thomas Cottier, Managing Director of the World Trade Institute

The Website Survey 2009 published in the Journal of International Economic Law, Volume 13, Number 1 (23 March 2010) describes TradeLawGuide as follows:

TradeLawGuide is a comprehensive database with a powerful new type of search engine that searches across PDF files of official awards, decisions and other WTO documents and ‘notes up’ (that is, ‘shepardizes’ in American terms) WTO decisions by tracking how subsequent WTO reports, awards and decisions have considered specific passages in WTO jurisprudence. The database features a citator that collects all jurisprudence under a treaty provision for the WTO system. The search is powerful, contextual and time saving.

TradeLawGuide also offers treaty interpretation, terms & phrases and other tools. Its annotated agreements are amazingly powerful due to their thoroughness and precision.

For more information on the content and features of TradeLawGuide, please see Database Overview. You can also access TradeLawGuide's new LEARNING CENTRE which provides instructional videos and manuals for its tools and how to use those tools to research WTO law in a methodical and efficient manner.

If you are interested in becoming a subscriber, please see Subscriptions.