Simon Lester

From the IIEL and the Graduate Institute: July 11, 2018 ◊ Georgetown Law, Washington, DC Download the Summer 2018 G2 Program RSVP Now Join Georgetown’s Institute of International Economic Law and the Graduate Institute, Geneva’s Center for Trade and Economic Integration for a conference on resolving disputes in international

Here is something from a speech by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross: We are now constrained by two sides of a WTO pincer. One is the most-favored nation clause, or MFN. This rule says that we must apply the same tariff to every nation with which we do not have

The Section 232 steel/aluminum tariffs are in place for some countries but not all, as exemptions are under negotiation.  A few countries are still talking with the Trump administration about this, but others (Argentina, Brazil, South Korea, and possibly Australia but I'm not sure) have gotten out

This is from a call for papers for a Joint North American Conference on International Economic Law Incorporating the 2018 ASIL IECLIG Biennial, to be held September 21-22, 2018 at McGill's Faculty of Law in Montreal: I. Overall Concept and Theme Theme: Managing International Economic (Dis)Integration:

Recall that CETA Article 8.10 identifies the following examples of "treatment" that is not "fair and equitable": 1. Each Party shall accord in its territory to covered investments of the other Party and to investors with respect to their covered investments fair and equitable treatment

Negotiating history often raises as many questions as it answers, but that's part of what makes it interesting. Recently, I stopped by the  University of Pennsylvania library to look at the Clair Wilcox collection of International Trade Organization documents, and I found a document dated September 15, 1947,

This is from the SIEL 2018 conference organizers: The Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) 2018 Global Conference will take place in Washington D.C. on July 12-14, 2018, with the theme International Economic Law in Unsettling Times. The Conference will be the largest conference SIEL has ever organized,

There are reports that an "agreement in principle" on a new NAFTA is almost ready. Will they try to resolve all of the major points as part of this, or will they gloss over some of them? I'm not sure. Anyway, here are 13 issues I&

This is from the newly released text of the EU - Japan Economic Partnership Agreement: ARTICLE 21.25 Administration of the dispute settlement procedure 1. Each Party shall: (a) designate an office which shall be responsible for the administration of the dispute settlement procedure under this Chapter; (b) be responsible for