Simon Lester

I wanted to mention two new books on WTO law.  The first I've been reading; the second is in the mail and I'll read it soon. The one I've been reading is A History of Law and Lawyers in the GATT/WTO: The Development

This is a guest post from Geneva trade lawyer Adarsh Ramanujan:“Rebuttable” presumption of Article 2.2 inconsistency arising from Article 5.1 inconsistency? Continuing from my earlier post on the AB Report on India – Agricultural Products, I found another finding of the AB to be an interesting one – this

This is a guest post from Geneva trade lawyer Adarsh Ramanujan:‘Interpretation’ of the scientific standards? Thoughts about India – Agricultural Products I finally got around to reading the AB Report released earlier in June in the India – Agricultural Products. I found one of the claims raised by India to be

From ELSA: ELSA International invites proposals from prospective case authors to write the Moot Court Case for the 14th edition of the ELSA Moot Court Competition on WTO Law. EMC2 is a simulated hearing of a World Trade Organization dispute settlement panel. Teams of interested students from all over the

As you have all have probably heard by now, at long last we are done with the tedious TPA debate: President Barack Obama signed into law on Monday legislation that gives him "fast-track" power to negotiate trade deals and speed them through Congress, ... I will leave commentary on

Over at AJIL Unbound, they are talking about the EC - Seal Products case, with contributions from Joel Trachtman, Don Regan, Julia Qin, Alexia Herwig, William J. Moon/Alec Stone Sweet, and Michael Fakhri.  No doubt all of the contributions are very interesting, but I confess to being bogged down

Last week, I wrote in praise of the China - Australia FTA (ChAFTA) ISDS provisions, suggesting that they were narrower in scope than typical ISDS provisions, in a good way.  I liked the fact that they left open whether to incorporate expropriation and minimum standard of treatment provisions, leaving that

This is a guest post from Henning Grosse Ruse - Khan  For a paper I have been working on (http://ssrn.com/abstract=2610576), I am looking for comments on applying GATT disciplines (such as Art.I, III, V and XI) as well as the General Exception rule in Art.

Remember the Yukos investment arbitration award?  Here is Reuters from last year discussing the award: An international arbitration court ruled on Monday that Russia must pay $50 billion for expropriating the assets of Yukos, the former oil giant whose ex-owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky fell foul of the Kremlin. Now here is

From the NY Times earlier this week: The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday gave the food industry three years to eliminate artery-clogging artificial trans fats from the food supply, a long-awaited step that capped years of effort by consumer groups and is expected to save thousands of lives a