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Meredith Kolsky Lewis

CIT grants IEEPA Plaintiffs' MSJ; Vacates and permanently enjoins all IEEPA tariffs

A unanimous panel (Katzmann, Reif, Restani) of the Court of International Trade has granted Plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment and injunctive relief in the V.O.S. Selections et al. and State of Oregon et al. challenges to all three sets of President Trump's IEEPA tariffs (worldwide/

International Trade Law position

Victoria University of Wellington's School of Law is looking to hire an additional Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in International Trade Law. The job posting can be found here under Reference No. 1643. http://www.victoria.ac.nz/about/careers/current-vacancies

The WTO congratulates itself on panel diversity - unfortunately its math is wrong

In this news release, https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news16_e/disp_21jun16_e.htm, the WTO announces that it has just appointed its 100th female dispute settlement panelist and compares itself favorably with other international tribunals, stating "[t]he WTO's dispute settlement system has

Appointment for Chang-fa Lo

I am delighted to report that our IEL colleague and my good friend Professor Chang-fa Lo of National Taiwan University has had his nomination to the Constitutional Court of Taiwan approved by the Legislative Yuan. Chang-fa will start his position as Justice on October 1. He promises he will remain

WTO Academy at Georgetown Law

Dear all,Please pass on the below to anyone who may be interested.Georgetown Law is pleased to announce that it will host the Fifth Annual Academy of WTO Law & Policy from November 15-19, 2010. The Academy is a non-degree, professional development program on WTO law and policy, offered

Meredith's Response to James's Opening Dissent Post

I agree with Henry’s comment that dissents are more easily justified at the panel stage, when they have the potential to provide additional information/arguments for the Appellate Body to review. However, I don’t agree that they should be forbidden at the Appellate Body level. While I think

A Debate on WTO Dissents - Meredith's Opening Post

First I’d like to thank Simon for suggesting this dialogue, and also James, who was kind enough to share his article with me before it went to print. In keeping with the format agreed to with James and Simon, in this post I will make some opening remarks, and

New Zealand - Australia Apples Dispute

The parties have received the confidential version of the panel's interim report in the Apples dispute, and the New Zealand press (citing unnamed officials) is reporting a comprehensive victory for New Zealand. Assuming this is indeed the result, on the one hand it is not surprising due to

U.S. to join P-4...but will it be P-4 as we know it?

As many will have seen, Susan Schwab announced this week the U.S.'s intention to join the Comprehensive Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership agreement, aka (at least here in New Zealand) the P-4 Agreement or P-4. P-4 is a pretty interesting agreement. The current parties are New Zealand, Singapore,