Simon Lester

From Sungjoon Cho: The aim of this workshop is to help bring contemporary international law scholarship into a closer conversation with a number of inspiring and theoretically rich literatures on law and markets deriving from traditions of thinking within sociology and anthropology. We are convinced that, particularly within the field

It seems obvious that a successful WTO complaint, properly implemented by the responding party, would bring down trade barriers and increase trade.  But a recent paper by some political scientists calls that into question: To assess whether disputes increase trade, we analyze detailed data on imports values at the country-product-year

From the folks at ELSA: The European Law Students’ Association (ELSA), as the world’s largest non-political law student’s association, will launch the 12th edition of the prestigious ELSA Moot Competition on WTO law in cooperation with the WTO itself, on the 15th of September 2013. The competition is

I thought I understood the Clove Cigarettes compliance/suspension process, but based on the U.S. statement at today's DSB meeting, I'm no longer sure that I do: • Second, we are concerned by the erratic behavior of Indonesia in relation to whether to sequence proceedings under

... are here: Canada and Mexico. We won't learn much about the details of the argumentation until the submissions start coming.

For those of you interested in the India - Solar Cells WTO dispute (DS456), Indian attorney Srikanth Hariharan has offered some commentary. Two things to note.  First, I couldn't make his footnotes come through. And second, I haven't thought about the case yet, and I'

As many of you probably know, there is lots of talk these days about free trade in environmental goods.  APEC has a list of such goods on which tariffs are to be removed, and President Obama has proposed a tariff-lowering agreement at the WTO. But there's a flaw

Having just mentioned PPMs in WTO law the other day, I was excited to see the same issue arise under U.S. law, in relation to a California law governing egg production.  Here's the WSJ explaining the issue in an editorial: Animal-rights activists have been lobbying Congress for

Indonesia has requested authorization to suspend concessions or other obligations in the Clove Cigarettes dispute: The United States failed to implement the recommendations and rulings of the DSB with respect to Section 907(a)(1)(A) by the end of the reasonable period of time, and no mutually acceptable arrangement

Former AB Member Jennifer Hillman has a new paper on carbon taxes and WTO rules. Some excerpts: Can such a carbon tax be applied in a way that does not violate U.S. obligations under the WTO Agreements? I believe the answer is yes, provided that policymakers carefully design such