Simon Lester

Last week, I mentioned Brazilian requirements for local data storage.  What does everyone think about this new proposal out of Brazil to create an email competitor to the major U.S. email providers: The Brazilian government is planning to develop a national email system that is protected from the sort

From the Washington Post: The [Brazilian] government is now introducing changes in the project that are quite problematic. One of them mandates that companies that store any type of Brazilian data have their servers physically located in Brazil. The idea of the government is that having the servers here will

-- The WSJ:  "The entire point of free-trade negotiations is to remove these political obstacles to investment and the movement of goods across borders. The tobacco carve-out is especially counterproductive because its economic importance is so small. The Obama Administration shouldn't let anti-smoking activists interfere

As you may have heard, we are now in the TPP "end game."  What does that mean exactly?  Will we have a completed TPP by the end of the year, as some have indicated?  Or will the pace be more Doha-like? For those of you in the

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-

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

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.