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Simon Lester

Simon Lester

Co-founder of WorldTradeLaw.net and China Trade Monitor. Non-resident fellow at the Baker Institute.

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Petersmann on "How should WTO members respond to the WTO Appellate Body crisis?"

This is a guest post from professor and long-time GATT/WTO Secretariat lawyer Ernst-Ullrich Petersmann : ERNST-ULRICH PETERSMANN * European University Institute, Florence (Italy) 1. The US blocking of the filling of WTO Appellate Body (AB) vacancies, since spring 2017, on grounds not related to the personal qualifications of

Three (Or More) Narratives about Globalization's Winners and Losers

Nicolas Lamp has a new paper out called, "How Should We Think about the Winners and Losers from Globalization? Three Narratives and their Implications for the Redesign of International Economic Agreements." This is from the intro: In the wake of Brexit and the widespread public opposition to new

Jennifer Hillman: Three Approaches to Fixing the Appellate Body

Jennifer Hillman has a new IIEL Issues Brief called "Three Approaches to Fixing the World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?" Her three approaches are: 1. The Good — A Separate System for Trade Remedies (with two possibilities: "Special Appellate Body for

Yale Journal of International Law Online Symposium on "International Trade in the Trump Era"

The Yale Journal of International Law is hosting an online symposium on "International Trade in the Trump Era," featuring an introduction by Kathleen Claussen (University of Miami School of Law) and David Singh Grewal (Yale Law School) and essays by Rachel Brewster, Tim Meyer, Joel Trachtman, Greg Shaffer,

Book Launch on GATT Disputes

This is a great project from the WTO: The publication GATT Disputes: 1948-1995, published by the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization (WTO), will be launched at the WTO Headquarters at 11:30 on Friday, 14 December 2018. Geneva, WTO Headquarters - Room D 14 DECEMBER 2018 In celebration of

The Sunset Clause and Written Confirmation by the "Head of Government"

Recall that para. 3 of the new NAFTA's sunset clause says: "each Party shall confirm, in writing, through its head of government, if it wishes to extend the term of this Agreement for another 16-year period." Over on Twitter, Joel points to another Congressional/Executive

The Sunset Clause and the Congressional/Executive Balance of Power

Recall that the sunset clause in the new NAFTA says, "each Party shall confirm, in writing, through its head of government, if it wishes to extend the term of this Agreement for another 16-year period." While the written confirmation comes from the "head of government,"

How Exactly Will the New NAFTA's Sunset Clause Work?

The final version of the sunset clause in the new NAFTA (USMCA) reads as follows: Article 34.7: Review and Term Extension 1. This Agreement shall terminate 16 years after the date of its entry into force, unless each Party confirms it wishes to continue this Agreement for a new

Guest Post: RIP NAALC: North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation

This is a guest post from University of Miami law prof Kathleen Claussen: The legal scrub of the labor chapter of the USMCA did not yield many changes since the publication of the draft text two months ago – a few “any”s became “a”s and a few “agree”s

Guest Post: International Commerce and World Wars: Vital Signs of the Current Malaise

This is a guest post by Joao Otavio Benevides Demasi, a Ph.D student at Maastricht University: This brief and incomplete essay is written in the broad intersection of WTO Law, World Diplomacy, Economic Policy, Analysis of the International Relations, Political Sciences, and History of International Economic Relations. For the