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As you may have heard, yesterday (Oct. 17), the Appellate Body released its long awaited report in the Hormones suspension case.  Remember:  In that case, the EC challenged US & Canadian continued sanctions as a violation of the DSU on the ground that (i) the EC had “removed” the illegal

Any of you still looking for international trade law teaching materials for the coming fall semester? With Andrew Guzman (Berkeley), I (Joost Pauwelyn, Graduate Institute, Geneva) am about to finish a complete draft of a new trade law case book (to come out with Aspen in 2009).  You can obtain

An event that should be of interest, organized at the Graduate Institute's new "Centre for Trade and Economic Integration" (CTEI), in cooperation with the WTO Appellate Body: Next week Tuesday, May 27, 10-12am, Graduate Institute, Geneva Roundtable discussion with the following AB members (former, current &

I want to come back to this most interesting Brazil – Tyres case that Joel and Julia already referred to.  Three things struck me: 1. Brazil essentially lost the case because it should have been MORE trade restrictive. The Panel basically found (under the chapeau of Art. XX) that if Brazil

A column in the New York Times – about how US judges find academic writings irrelevant – reminded me of a question I have had for some time:  Why is it that WTO panels and the Appellate Body almost never, ever, refer to scholarly writings (and if they do, it is to

For the few of you who are not regular readers of the Durham, North Carolina based "News & Observer" newspaper, here is a link to an op-ed that my Duke Law colleague Barak Richman and I just wrote on Leonardo DiCaprio's new movie "Blood Diamond&

Those interested in how WTO law interacts with the rest of international law may know that in 2002 the UN International Law Commission (ILC) set up a Study Group to examine the “fragmentation” of international law.  Well, the final report and conclusions of this Study Group are now published.  In

Thank you, Tomer, for informing us about the Softwood Lumber award issued on June 6 under NAFTA Chapter 11. http://worldtradelaw.typepad.com/ielpblog/2006/06/the_sound_of_a_.html The (170+ pages!) NAFTA award offers an interesting contrast to the WTO Appellate Body's recent ruling in

Thank you, Simon, for the link to the full GMO interim report. One really has to read the full report to appreciate the Herculian job performed by this panel, and the WTO staff advising it.  The report is amazingly well-written. Given, in particular, our earlier discussions, I want to stress