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Petros C. Mavroidis

Petros C. Mavroidis

Edwin B. Parker Professor of Foreign & Comparative Law, Columbia Law School

A WTO-Compatible Climate Club that Solves our Climate Problem

We argue that the inability of the Paris Climate Agreement to stop the increase in carbon dioxide emissions is because its “name and shame” approach ignores the science of the requirements for an effective international cooperative agreement on climate policy.

It’s the End of the World (TO) as We Know it

Revealed Preferences Matter China, the EU (European Union), and the U.S. have in recent weeks all tabled in writing their views regarding the future of the WTO.[1] The end result should leave no one in doubt that coordination costs between the three dominant players in the trading sphere

Scheduling Is the Ace in the Hole

by Carlo M. Cantore[1] & Petros C. Mavroidis[2] 1. Consensus as Insurance Against the Waning of MFN The WTO membership has been mulling over the legal status of completed JSIs (Joint Statement Initiatives). JSIs are not multilateral agreements. They could become plurilateral agreements, if the membership (including those

Who Will be the MC (Master of Ceremony) of MC14?

1. The 2026 Version of the Bicycle Theory for Trade A few decades back, in separate publications, Fred C. Bergsten, and Jagdish Bhagwati referred to the “bicycle” theory of trade. In short, the idea was that steady (continuous) progress towards freer trade is essential. If not, political forces favoring protectionism

OBOR, No More?

Last year the European Union (EU) imposed countervailing duties (CVDs) against imports of glass fiber originating in Egypt. Nothing shocking so far, other than the fact that the EU measure was counteracting subsidies granted by … China. How should we think about this and similar issues? Facts of the Case Commission

Scheduling in WTO

A number of recent panels have dealt with scheduling issues. In GATS especially, there seems to be dissatisfaction across Members with the manne rin which the Mexico - Telecoms and the US - Gambling reports came out. The former clearly states in a rather lengthy footnote that moving away from what was

The WTO's forgotten self

It is remarkable that the media's focus on the WTO is exhausted in the question will it or will it not yield an outcome this time (Doha round)? The WTO is a public institution, and public perceptions matter. Its biggest accomplishment, I would submit, is its very existence: