Simon Lester

This is from today's Russia - Pigs WTO panel report: 6.2. In light of the parties' comments to the Interim Report, on 4 March 2016 the Panel informed the parties that it had decided to have an interim review meeting, which took place on 10 March 2016.

This is a guest post by Matthew Kennedy, a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of International Business and Economics, Beijing.  He was formerly a senior lawyer in the WTO Secretariat and Secretary of the WTO Council for TRIPS.  Intellectual Property Cases in a Trade Law Tribunal:

Via Inside US Trade, this is from the draft Statement of Administrative Action for the TPP: 1. Implementing Bill ... g. Dispute Settlement Section 105(a) of the bill authorizes the President to establish within the Department of Commerce an office responsible for providing administrative assistance to dispute settlement panels established

Global Arbitration Review published a summary of an interview with Gary Born about international arbitration. Here's an excerpt, focusing on the investment arbitration part: Interviewed as part of a New York International Arbitration Centre event in memory of its late founding chair, Judith Kaye, Born addressed a range

From a press conference today: Q    Thank you, Mr. President.  You're here today touting the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but Hillary Clinton is against it.  Her vice presidential nominee, Tim Kaine, has now reversed himself and is now against it.  Donald Trump is, too, meaning that the next President

Political scientists Todd Allee and Andrew Lugg have a new article showing that the TPP is textually more like U.S. FTAs than it is like the FTAs of other TPP parties: We evaluate the TPP in a new way by systematically comparing the recently-released text of the TPP

Democratic VP nominee Tim Kaine was interviewed on CNN about his position on the TPP: Kaine also denied he had changed his stance on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, insisting that he has not "shifted my position on that."Kaine voted to grant President Barack Obama fast-track authority

I've mentioned this before, but I'm still baffled. This is from GOP VP nominee Mike Pence: “With the TPP, it feels a little bit like Obamacare, you remember when Nancy Pelosi said, ‘we gotta pass this bill so we can find out what’s in it,

This is from Politico: Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, longtime best friend to the Clintons, said Tuesday that he believes Hillary Clinton will support the TPP trade deal if elected president, with some tweaks. “I worry that if we don’t do TPP, at some point China’s going to break

The FT explains how complicated this is: Membership of the EU’s customs union — that is, having a common external tariff applied to imports from the rest of the world — is a separate issue to membership of its single market. Norway, for example, is a member of the single market