LAW, REGULATION AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

• Date: 01 March 2003
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-1714.2003.tb01158.x
• Author: Clyde D. Stoltenberg
• Published date: 01 March 2003

LAW,

REGULATION

AND

INTERNATIONAL

BUSINESS

Cbde

D.

Stoltenberg*

It

has been a decade since the

ABLJ’s

first special issue on legal

issues affecting international business. That issue featured articles on

international environmental protection and the

GATT,

product

liability and data protection in the European Community, the gray

market, and some implications of the free trade/fair trade debate.

Events

of

the past decade have confirmed in some respects that the

more things change, the more they remain the same. The issues

addressed ten years ago are still with us.

The GATT/environment article’ focused on the tuna/dolphin

controversy, and fishing-related issues were highlighted in recent

testimony by an assistant secretary of state before the Senate

Commerce Committee that “illegal, unreported and unregulated

(IUU)

ocean fishing has become an increasingly important

*

Professor

of

Business Law

&

Director of International Business

Programs

and East

‘

Don Mayer

&

David Hoch,

International

Eniironmmtnl

Protect7on and the

GATE

‘The

,Asian Business Studies, University of Texas-San Antonio.

Tuna/Dolp/2m Controuery,

3

1

Ahl.

BLb.

L.J.

187-244

(1993).