Simon Lester

From TDM: Call for papers: TDM Special Issue on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between the European Union and Canada (CETA) http://www.transnational-dispute-management.com/news.asp?key=550 Herfried Wöss, Fabien Gélinas, Andrea Bjorklund, and John Gaffney will be editing a TDM Special Issue on the Comprehensive Economic

From CBC news: The Alberta government is banning the sale of some flavoured tobacco products in a bid to curb youth smoking -- but is still allowing the sale of menthol cigarettes. Health Minister Stephen Mandel defended the exclusion, saying that Alberta needs to "deal with the realities of

Assuming we get a TPP at some point, do we need to create a Secretariat to administer it?  This is from Politico: A final TPP agreement may be months from conclusion and could take longer to go into force. But supporters are already fretting about how the monstrous trade deal

This was probably inevitable: WESTMINSTER, Mass. (AP) — The cartons of Marlboros, cans of Skoal and packs of Swisher Sweets are hard to miss stacked near the entrance of Vincent's Country Store, but maybe not for much longer: All tobacco products could become contraband if local health officials get

From the ASIL-IEcLIG: ASIL-IEcLIG Co-Chairs, Elizabeth Trujillo (Suffolk University Law School) and Jason Yackee (University of Wisconsin Law School), are happy to announce the upcoming ASIL--International Economic Law Interest Group's Biennial Research conference, on “Reassessing International Economic Law and Development: New Challenges for Law and Policy,” taking place

This is from Chief Justice French of the Australian high court: So far as I am aware the judiciary, as the third branch of government in Australia, has not had any significant collective input into the formulation of ISDS clauses in relation to their possible effects upon the authority and

With cases like the CAFTA labor complaint against Guatemala going on, this might be an interesting job: The Trade Agreement Secretariat, is looking for an energetic, innovative Director who will enjoy working in a dynamic and mission-driven organization. The ideal candidate will be responsible for overseeing the impartial administration of

The big, and not unexpected, news of yesterday is that Republicans now control both houses of Congress, for the first time since 2006.  One thing this will do is help the GOP to set the agenda on trade policy and trade negotiations. So what will they do with their newfound

This is from the recent panel report in India - Agricultural Products: 7.791. In its panel request, the United States claimed that India acted inconsistently with Annex B(5)(a) to (5)(d) because it failed to, inter alia, identify the parts of its AI measures which, in substance,