1. Interdisciplinary Research in Law: Companies Facing Technical Barriers to Trade

2. Research problem - You provide in-house counsel services to a company which manufactures highly competitive technical. 1.You would like to identify markets that would be good targets for growing your exports. 2.You are also interested in identifying markets with which we have preferential or regional trading agreements as well as any regulations in place governing trade with particular markets.

3. Preliminary meta-research international datasets 1.Free of charge databases? 2. Fee-based databases? How do you choose? Who publishes them? Where can you access them?

4. Let’s research:

5. Research problem 2 - when companies face an issue of technical barriers to trade, the burden of proof required to bring such a case to court keeps them from doing so. What is your strategy? - Where do companies complain about unfair trading practices caused by technical barriers?

6. Clarify your question (break it into smaller concepts, if necessary) Do you need contextual information? (literature search) Can you go for the primary source? Where do you start? What is your jurisdiction?

7. More preliminary meta- research -usually each research task requires its strategy.

8. Research tasks:

9. Strategize:

11. 3) finding information if/how NAFTA coordinates any formal product quality control mechanism (aside from the dispute panels) See: http://www.naftanow.org/dispute/default_en.asp http://www.ftaa- alca.org/ngroups/ngds/publications/dsw8r4_e.asp http://www.ftaa- alca.org/ngroups/ngds/publications/dsw8r4_e.asp http://www.lalive.ch/data/publications/5_Journal_of_ International_Dispute_Settlement_2010.pdf

12. Strategize:

13. Common Strategies:

14. Questions?