Dr Tracey Epps

Dr Tracey Epps has a LLB/BA(Hons) from the University of Auckland, and an LLM and SJD from the University of Toronto, Canada.

She is an active member of the International Economic Interest Law Group of the American Society for International Law, and the Society for International Economic Law. She is co-chair of the latter's group for Women in International Economic Law.

Research Interests

International economic law, including international trade and investment; law and development; and regulatory law and policy. 

Courses taught past and previously

LAWS471 - International Trade Regulation, LAWS477 - International Investment Law       
    

Publications

Books

Tracey Epps, International Trade and Health Protection: A Critical Assessment of the WTO’s SPS Agreement (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2008).

Book Chapters

Tracey Epps, “Demanding Perfection: Private Food Standards and the SPS Agreement”. In Meredith Lewis & Susy Frankel, eds., International Economic Law and National Autonomy (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2009).

Tracey Epps and Rose Anne MacGillivray, “Venutian Scholarship in a Martian Landscape: Women in International Economic Law Scholarship and Teaching”, Colin Picker, Isabella Bunn & Douglas Arner, eds; International Economic Law: The State & Future of the Discipline (Oxford Hart Publishing, forthcoming 2008)

Tracey Epps, “Regulation of Health Care Professionals”.  In Jocelyn Downie, Tim Caulfield, and Colleen M. Flood, eds., Canadian Health Law and Policy (Toronto: Butterworths, 2007)

Tracey Epps and David Schneiderman, “Opening Medicare to the World or Closing the Door on a Public System?  International Trade Implications of Chaoulli v. Quebec” (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005).

Articles

Andrew Green and Tracey Epps, “Is There a Role for Trade Measures in Addressing Climate Change”? (2008) UC Davis Journal of International Law and Policy 15:1, 1.

Tracey Epps, "Reconciling public opinion and WTO rules under the SPS Agreement" (2008) World Trade Review 7:2, 359-392

Tracey Epps, "World Trade: The FTA with China" (May 2008) New Zealand Law Journal 141-142

Tracey Epps, "World Trade: Dispute settlement cases on Health and the Environment" (March 2008) New Zealand Law Journal 49-50

Tracey Epps, "World Trade: The Long and Winding Road from Doha" (December 2007) New Zealand Law Journal 409-410.

Andrew Green and Tracey Epps, “Weighing the Options: Should WTO Rules Require Evidentiary Consistency for Domestic Regulatory and Tax Decisions?” (2007) Journal of International Economic Law 10:2, 285-316

Michael M. Trebilcock, Edward Iacobucci, & Tracey Epps, “Rerouting the Mail: Why Canada Post is due for Reform” (CD Howe Institute, Toronto, 2007)

Tracey Epps, “Transportation and Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa: Navigating the GATS Request-Offer Process” (2005, translated into French and published online at International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty (ILEAP: www.ileapinitiative.com).

Colleen M. Flood and Tracey Epps, “Waiting Time and Waiting Lists:  What Role for a Patients’ Bill of Rights?” (2004) McGill Law Journal 49; 515.

Tracey Epps, “Merchants in the Temple? The Implications of the NAFTA and GATS for Canada’s Health Care System” (2003) Health Law Review 3.

Tracey Epps and Colleen M. Flood, “The Implications of the NAFTA for Medicare:  Have We Traded Away the Opportunity for Innovative Health care Reform?” (2002) McGill Law Journal 42; 747.

Tracey Epps, “Legislation Note, The Trademarks Amendment Act 1995” (1995) Auckland University Law Review.

Tracey Epps, “Private Financing in the Public Health Sector” (2000) Health and Disability Policy Forum (Wellington, New Zealand).

Book Reviews

Tracey Epps, Review of James Harrison, Human Rights and Trade (June 2008) New Zealand Law Journal 180-182.

Tracey Epps, Review of Ikechi Mgbeoji, Global Biopiracy: Patents, Plants, and Indigenous Knowledge (2007) 34:4 European Review of Agricultural Economics 539-541.

Conference Presentations

February 2008
“Is there a role for trade sanctions in addressing climate change?”, paper presented at “Beyond Kyoto: Joint Legal Symposium, Faculty of Law, University of California at Davis, February 29, 2008 (with Andrew Green).

December 2007
“Demanding perfection: private standards and the SPS Agreement”, paper presented at “International Economic Law and National Autonomy: Convergence or Divergence?” Inaugural Conference of the New Zealand Centre for International Economic Law, Victoria University of Wellington, December 14-15, 2007.

May 2007
“Special and Differential Treatment in Agricultural Trade: Breaking the Impasse”, paper presented at “Developing Countries in the WTO Legal System: An ASIL Regional Meeting at the University of Minnesota”, Minneapolis, May 24-26, 2007 (with Michael Trebilcock).

“The Role of Science and Public Sentiment in Regulatory Decisions Regarding Health Under the SPS Agreement”, paper presented at the Seventh Annual WTO Conference, British Institute of Comparative and International Law, London, May 22-23, 2007).

November 2006
“Venutian Scholarship in a Martian Landscape: Women in International Economic Law Scholarship and Teaching”, paper presented at American Society of International Law - International Economic Law Group – 2006 IELG Annual Conference at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire: International Economic Law – The State and Future of the Discipline: (with Rose-Ann MacGillivray).

September 2005
“Opening Medicare to the World or Closing the Door on a Public System? International Trade Implications of Chaoulli v. Quebec”, paper presented at “Access to Care, Access to Justice” (University of Toronto, Toronto).

January 2004
“Merchants in the Temple? The Implications of the GATS for Canada’s Health Care System” Presented to National Health Law Conference (Toronto).

Contact Details

Email: tracey.epps@otago.ac.nz