Dr. Meredith Taylor Black is the director of International Business Programs in the College of Business and Economics at Boise State University. Dr. Black earned her Ph.D., summa cum laude, in the area of WTO trade law at the University of Bern in Switzerland, where she also completed a Master’s in International Law & Economics at the World Trade Institute as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar. In addition, her academic background includes a Juris Doctorate from the University of Idaho College of Law, and a B.A. in Political Science and Certificate in Health Public Policy from Duke University. Dr. Black's research is focused on agriculture negotiations, subsidies, dispute settlement, and development issues within the World Trade Organization.
Articles
Brazil's WTO Challenge to U.S. Cotton Subsidies: The Road to Effective Disciplines of Agricultural Subsidies (with Scott D. Andersen), Business Law Brief (2009)
Brazil’s landmark 2003–2009 challenges before the World Trade Organization (WTO) targeted massive United States (U.S.)...
Contributions to Books
On the Broader View of the Open Source Paradigm: The Case for Agricultural Biotechnology (with Geoffrey Black and Wita Wojtkowski), Information Systems Development : Business Systems and Services: Modeling and Development (2011)
This study reviews the use and advantages of open source software licensing and examines how...
Presentations
The WTO: Made By the World, For the World, Beyond the Blue Faculty Podcasts, Boise State University (2012)
What is the World Trade Organization (WTO) and why should you care about it? In...