What I know about international trade law could be written on a postage stamp, so it's lucky that this lecture was plenty accessible (and also that Jarrod was on hand to explain some of the lingo afterwards). Howse first argued that human rights conditionality is legal under international (trade) law, and then made the normative case - it all sounded good to me, but then what would I know? It's an interesting area though - I ought to read up about it a bit...
(@ Melb Law School one night last week, w/ Jarrod - trang and friend (Eng-Lai?) also there by coincidence)