The Fletcher School

A Graduate School of International Affairs

 

Richard Blackhurst

Richard Blackhurst

Richard Blackhurst

richard.blackhurst@tufts.edu

Address:
The Fletcher School
Tufts University
160 Packard Ave
Medford, MA 02155

Adjunct Professor of International Economics

Education

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 1955-59, B.S. Degree
University of Chicago, 1962-65, Ph.D. Degree (Economics) 1968

Professional Activities

Editor of the World Trade Review, February 2001 to December 2004. The WTR is an independent professional journal established in 2001 at the initiative of the Secretariat of the of the World Trade Organization in co-operation with Cambridge University Press (first issue appeared in March 2002). Member of the WTR's Editorial Board as from January 2005.

Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva). Adjunct Professor October 1974 to September 2002.

Director of Economic Research and Analysis, World Trade Organization (formerly the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade), February 1985 through April 1997. Joined the GATT Secretariat in 1974.

Curriculum Vitae

Richard Blackhurst - Curriculum VitaePDF

Courses

GMAP Courses

Research Interests

Trade policies; the political economy of trade-policy making; the role of the multilateral trading system in an increasingly globalized world economy.

Selected Publications

  • "Options for Improving Africa's Participation in the WTO", (with W. Lyakurwa and A. Oyejide), The World Economy, April 2000, reprinted in Developing Countries and the WTO: a Pro-active Agenda, B. Hoekman and W. Martin (editors), Blackwell, 2001;
  • "Reforming WTO Decision Making: Lessons from Singapore and Seattle", in K. Deutsch and B. Speyer (ed.s), The World Trade Organization Millennium Round: Freer Trade in the Twenty-First Century, Routledge (London and New York), 2001;
  • "The WTO as the Legal Foundation of International Commercial Relations: Current Status and Options for the Next Decade", in F. Snyder (ed.) Regional and Global Regulation of International Trade, Hart Publishing (Oxford and Portland, Oregon), 2002;
  • "Improving the Capacity of WTO Institutions to Fulfil Their Mandate" (with David Hartridge), in E-U. Petersmann (ed.) "Preparing the Doha Development Round: Challenges to the Legitimacy and Efficiency of the World Trading System", Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, 2004, reprinted (a) in the Journal of International Economic Law, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2004, and (b) in E-U. Petersmann (ed.) Reforming the World Trading System: Legitimacy, Efficiency and Democratic Governance, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
  • "A Tribute to Robert E. Hudec", (with Petros Mavroidis), World Trade Review, March 2005.