Joost Pauwelyn

I first thought it was an email phishing scam, but it is a real story that a journalist was asking my opinion on. I found it intriguing enough to share it on the blog ... A few day ago, Wikileaks released what has been referred to as a "Secret Treaty

This blog has previously discussed California’s ban on foie gras. When teaching WTO law at Stanford in 2012 -- the year the ban entered into force -- I even used the ban as my mid-term exam question! Turns out that on January 7, a US district court judge passed

With more and, especially, deeper FTAs in place, I predict an uptake in dispute settlement under FTAs. Parties may generally prefer to file their disputes before the WTO. But in some cases they simply have no choice.  The commitment can only be found in an FTA (it is so-called “WTO-plus”

Looking for a young and dynamic colleague to join the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.  International economic law is one of four possible fields of specialization.  Guess which field I am pushing for? This is a really unique opening for someone focused on international trade, investment,

Thanks, Simon, for drawing our attention, in your previous post, to the Peru – Agricultural Products case. I have been following this dispute for a while (although I was not in any way involved in it) as it raises fascinating, systemic issues of the relation between WTO and non-WTO agreements (most

Plenty to think about when it comes to the “necessity” test applied by the AB to the EU seals ban (and especially the exceptions thereunder) under XX(a). What struck me, in particular, is how the AB set up the public morals justification as somehow fundamentally different from other objectives

With Simon's permission, I wanted to let you know about two calls for candidates we have in Geneva: 1. A 50% job, to help me run and supervise the Trade & Investment Law Clinic at the Graduate Institute, and to set up a new, related internet platform www.

I’m intrigued by a speech Thomas Graham gave last week at Hofstra, reported also in Inside US Trade. Mr. Graham (the US member on the Appellate Body) points out that -- with an increasingly diverse WTO membership (think: China and now Russia) and deadlock in WTO negotiations -- the

Has anyone been following the UN negotiations over a new Arms Trade Treaty? Colleagues of mine from the Graduate Institute in Geneva actually attended the July 2-27, 2012 negotiations in New York and wrote this interesting report about the conference’s failure (apparently: US and Russia to blame) as well

What struck me the most reading the recent AB report on COOL, is how, for the third time in a row, the AB found a violation of discrimination (under TBT Art. 2.1), but shied away from finding the measure “more trade restrictive than necessary” (pursuant to TBT Art. 2.