Labor and environment standards resemble intellectual property standards in terms of their relationship to trade flows and their international legal status. Despite these similarities, only intellectual property standards have been incorporated into the WTO. Once conventional defenses for excluding labor and environment standards from the WTO are cleared away, more genuine issues of political will and orientation emerge. If these political problems were resolved, however, real difficulties of legal form would arise - the coherence and content of labor and environment obligations, and other justiciability concerns. However, a comparison to similar challenges within trade and intellectual property law suggests that such difficulties can be overcome, if it is deemed desirable to do so. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT