Simon Lester

From the SIEL: The Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) is organising its fifth Biennial Global Conference – International Economic Law in a Diverse World – on 7-9 July 2016 at the University of Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa. SIEL is a membership organization aimed at academics and academically-minded practitioners

Following up on my earlier post about U.S. allegations that the Appellate Body sometimes says more than it needs to say, here's another point the U.S. makes: Second, in DS430, a dispute in which the United States was the complaining party and prevailed, we noted that

The 16th Annual WTO Law conference is coming up next week. Formerly a BIICL/IIEL production in London, it has moved to Geneva this year and added the Graduate Institute and the SIEL as organizers. From the conference web page: The Annual WTO Conference was originally established in 2000 through

This is the abstract of a new paper by Cass Sunstein: When an agency fails to engage in quantitative cost-benefit analysis, has it acted arbitrarily and hence in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act? At first glance, the question answers itself: Congress sometimes requires that form of analysis, but

From ELSA: Press release Final Oral Round - ELSA Moot Court Competition on WTO law Between 7 and 12 June 2016, the Final Oral Round of the ELSA Moot Court Competition will take place in Geneva, Switzerland. Over 150 active students, their team coaches, renowned academics and practitioners from all around

Here is the main text of a letter to the DSB chair from all the living, former Appellate Body Members: We write in the hope that we can be of some assistance to the Members of the World Trade Organization. As the thirteen living former Members of the WTO Appellate

For those of you despairing about your choices in the U.S. Presidential election, you are in luck, there's now a credible third party option: The Libertarians. OK, you can stop laughing now, because this time they have a former two term governor as the Presidential nominee (Gary

The U.S. actions at the WTO in relation to the reappointment of Seung Wha Chang, discussed in various recent posts (and comments) on this blog, have been heavily criticized by everyone I've talked to about the issue. However, I have heard sympathy for the substance of some

Over at EJIL:Talk!, Arman Sarvarian and Fontanelli Filippo respond to the Appellate Body reappointment controversy with some reform suggestions: A Single-Term System? The chair of the DSB noted that further consultations were necessary to exit the deadlock. Recourse to diplomacy reveals the structural limits of the applicable procedural

In the last post, I said I would report the details of the DSB discussion of the Appellate Body reappointment controversy when they are available. Well, Inside US Trade has them here. They probably don't want me reposting the whole article, but here's a snippet: The