Rob Howse

This year the World Trade Forum at the WTI is exploring the rule of law in monetary affairs.  This morning Markus Krajewski presented an excellent paper on the human rights implications of austerity programmes in the Eurozone.  There ensued an interesting debate, in which a former general counsel of the

Simon our leader just pointed out to me that Chelliah was also on the Tuna/Dolphin III panel (she replaced one of the originally named panelists who passed away during the proceedings). The Tuna/Dolphin finding that there was no violation by the US of non-discrimination in TBT (Article 2.

The panelists are: Luzius Wasescha, Elizabeth Chelliah, and Patricia Holmes. Wasescha, a familiar name to many who follow this blog, is a senior Swiss trade official, who has held numerous important positions and served on several WTO panels.  He has an academic training in law and (some years ago) wrote

Canada never ceases to think of the WTO as the last resort for defending some of the worst aspects of its public policies. Usually, Europeans are the target.  There was asbestos, then more recently, seals and now they are rattling the WTO sabres about the oilsands.  The EU is considering

The recently reported Russian prohibition on seal fur imports adds an important element of context for the EU’s dispute with Canada and Norway over its seal products ban.   The details of the Russian ban are in this WTO document:  http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news11_e/table1_