Simon Lester

This is from David Kleimann and Gesa Kübek, who attended the CJEU hearing on the EU-Singapore FTA, the case which will address issues of EU competence over trade and investment policy: In the wake of the CETA-crisis, some commentators were quick to advocate for ‘EU-only’ treatymaking as

This is the abstract of a paper by Marina Foltea and Anna Markitanova: The regulation of e-cigarettes is a relatively new topic and the optimal regulation of these products is not yet fully understood. Evaluations are underway on many aspects linked to these products, for example: their safety, potential

This is from Professor Katia Fach Gomez: EU Policy on International Investments: Uncertainties, Challenges and Opportunities We are pleased to announce the holding of the “EU Policy on International Investments: Uncertainties, Challenges and Opportunities” international conference on the 20th and 21st March 2017 at the  University of Zaragoza Law School.

There has been lots of talk by Trump and his advisers about renegotiating NAFTA, or if that doesn't work withdrawing from it.  With TPP, by contrast, they mostly just talk about abandoning it. In terms of the substance of NAFTA, they seem to be focused on issues such

This is from Inside US Trade: Dan DiMicco, former chief executive of steel producer Nucor and senior trade adviser for President-elect Donald Trump's campaign, will lead the Trump administration's transition efforts for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, according to a document obtained

The next four years are going to be rough. Trade is one of many areas where Donald Trump has said some things that are far out of the mainstream. Some of his statements just carry on current policy ("I am going to instruct the U.S. Trade Representative to

This is from the recent U.S. DSB statement related to the EU - Biodiesel Measures Appellate Body report: The United States, however, would like to draw the DSB’s attention to an important systemic issue with implications for the operation of the dispute settlement system. The issue is how the

This is from Laurens Ankersmit: So what are the main legal issues underlying ICS and EU law? It is clear that the Treaties in principle permit international agreements providing for state-to-state dispute settlement between the EU and third countries (such as the WTO’s dispute settlement body). Such

First it was some groups in Germany. Now someone in Canada is filing a constitutional challenge to CETA. The key documents are here. This is from the press release: The Plaintiffs central challenge is four-fold, namely that: (1) that the federal government does not have the constitutional authority to

CETA has now been signed, although perhaps not yet sealed and delivered. The Joint Interpretative Instrument that helped CETA reach the provisional application stage (ratification is still a ways off) is here. I've been curious about what impact this instrument of interpretation will have on the interpretation of