Biotechnology rules, not even a topic twenty years ago, have been made a pressing global issue by the spectacular explosion of discoveries in recent years. Yet biotechnology is still in its infancy, so far bringing up many more questions and possibilites than answers and outcomes.

The new world economy force demands more attention to the labor rules national economies apply-as they ineract more and more with eachother. The demographic force throws in a series of migration-related issues. It is hard to imagine the world twenty years from now not having some sort of global labor market rules in place-because such a market is clearly in the making.

It is hard to do justice to the variety and complexity of e-commerce issues in so little space. The main point is the urgency of solving this emerging global issue fast.-while it is still in its infancy.

The protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) has changed over the last two decades from an obscure national regulaiton issue to a hotly debated global issue. It's a very complex issue to summarize, as there are quite a few strands. These strands should give a sense of the urgency of moving to global solutions fpr this complex issue of IPRs.