2026 Steve Charnovitz: Law Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Law	26	343	242	148	4690

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Overview

Steve Charnovitz is affiliated with George Washington University in the United States. Their research primarily engages with international trade law, with a focus on intersections between trade, labor, and environmental issues.

Their recent published papers include:

How the Topsy-Turvy Trade World Affects Climate Change Cooperation (2020) in SSRN Electronic Journal
What Shapes the Law? Reflections on the History, Law, Politics and Economics of International and European Subsidy Disciplines (2020) in World Trade Review
Labor as a Trade Issue and Trade as a Labor Issue (2024) in SSRN Electronic Journal
Frieder Roessler and the Trading System (2025) in World Trade Review

Steve Charnovitz's frequent coauthors include:

L. Alan Winters
Miles Lambert
Kyle Bagwell
Emily J. Blanchard
Chad P. Bown

The major publication venues for their work are:

World Trade Review
SSRN Electronic Journal

Their work spans the subfield of Strategy and Management.

Key topics addressed in their research include International Arbitration and Investment Law.

Best Publications

Two Centuries of Participation: NGOs and International Governance

Steve Charnovitz

949
Citations
Nongovernmental Organizations and International Law

Steve Charnovitz

503
Citations
Rethinking WTO Trade Sanctions

Steve Charnovitz

405
Citations
The Law of Environmental 'PPMs' in the WTO: Debunking the Myth of Illegality

Steve Charnovitz

360
Citations
Opening the WTO to Nongovernmental Interests

Steve Charnovitz

219
Citations
Triangulating the World Trade Organization

Steve Charnovitz

178
Citations
Exploring the Environmental Exceptions in GATT Article XX

Steve Charnovitz

175
Citations
Free Trade, Fair Trade, Green Trade: Defogging the Debate

Steve Charnovitz

168
Citations
Trade and Climate Change: A Report by the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Trade Organization by UNEP and the WTO Geneva: WTO, 2009

Steve Charnovitz

127
Citations
The WTO’s Environmental Progress

Steve Charnovitz

122
Citations
The Greening of the WTO

Michael M. Weinstein;Steve Charnovitz

118
Citations
Accountability of Non-Governmental Organizations in Global Governance

Steve Charnovitz

91
Citations
A World Environment Organization

Steve Charnovitz;Norichika Kanie;Peter M. Haas;Toru Iwama

68
Citations
Canada-Renewable Energy: Implications for WTO Law on Green and Not-So-Green Subsidies

Steve Charnovitz;Carolyn Fischer

38
Citations
Should the teeth be pulled? An analysis of WTO sanctions

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35
Citations
THE WTO AND COSMOPOLITICS

Steve Charnovitz

25
Citations
Mapping the Law of WTO Accession

Steve Charnovitz

18
Citations
An Analysis of Pascal Lamy’s Proposal on Collective Preferences

Steve Charnovitz

17
Citations
Transparency and Participation in the World Trade Organization

Steve Charnovitz

16
Citations
Fair Labor Standards and International Trade

Steve Charnovitz

16
Citations
Green subsidies and the WTO

Steve Charnovitz

10
Citations
Environmental Trade Sanctions and the GATT: An Analysis of the Pelly Amendment on Foreign Environmental Practices

Steve Charnovitz

9
Citations
Trade Law and Global Governance

Steve Charnovitz

9
Citations
The International Labour Organization in its Second Century

Steve Charnovitz

9
Citations
Non-Governmental Organizations and the Original International Trade Regime

Steve Charnovitz;John Wickham

8
Citations
Adjudicating Compliance in the WTO: A Review of DSU Article 21.5

Jason E. Kearns;Steve Charnovitz

7
Citations
Trade Law Norms on International Migration

Steve Charnovitz

6
Citations
Trade and the Environment in the WTO

Steve Charnovitz

5
Citations
Trade and Employment: Challenges for Policy Research. A Joint Study of the International Labour Office and the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization

Steve Charnovitz

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Howse New York University

Joost Pauwelyn Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

John H. Jackson Georgetown University

External Links

Personal website of Steve Charnovitz

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