Simon Lester

2nd Conference of the Postgraduate and Early Professionals/Academics Network of the Society of International Economic Law (PEPA/SIEL)Göttingen (Germany), 25th & 26th January 2013 Organised by SIEL in cooperation with the Institute of International and European Law of the Georg-August-University GöttingenCall for Papers This conference offers postgraduate students

Article: Going Beyond Stereotypes: Participation of Developing Countries in WTO Dispute Settlement, 4(1) Trade, L. & Dev. 45 (2012) [available here] Authors:  Jan Bohanes & Fernanda Garza Comment by Henry Gao The participation of developing countries in WTO dispute settlement system is a topic of great importance in theory

Article: Going Beyond Stereotypes: Participation of Developing Countries in WTO Dispute Settlement, 4(1) Trade, L. & Dev. 45 (2012) [available here] Authors : Jan Bohanes & Fernanda Garza Reviewer: Henry Gao Introduction to the Article, by Shreya Munoth Dispute Settlement is, undisputedly, one of the most outstanding features of the

Rob pointed us to the composition of the Seal Products panel yesterday. Everyone is probably aware that it took a long time to compose the panel.  To be precise, based on the establishment date of April 21, 2011, when Norway's panel was established (Canada's was established

Article : Transparency and Public Participation in the WTO: A Report Card on WTO Transparency Mechanisms, 4(1) Trade, L. & Dev. 19 (2012) [available here] Authors : Gabrielle Marceau & Mikella Hurley Reply by Gabrielle Marceau I agree with the comments of Robert Wolfe and there is not much to add.

We learned about the Australia High Court's plain packaging decision a couple months ago, but now we have the reasoning.  I've only just skimmed through it.  There's a lot in there, for those who are interested either in this case or these property rights

This is from the leaked Regulatory Coherence chapter of the TPP: Each Party should ensure that covered regulatory measures are plainly written, clear, concise, well organized and easy to understand, recognizing that some measures address technical issues and that relevant expertise may be needed to understand and apply them. OK,

Article : Transparency and Public Participation in the WTO: A Report Card on WTO Transparency Mechanisms, 4(1) Trade, L. & Dev. 19 (2012) [available here] Authors : Gabrielle Marceau & Mikella Hurley Comment by Robert Wolfe This paper is an outstanding description and analysis of the openness of the WTO dispute

Article: Transparency and Public Participation in the WTO: A Report Card on WTO Transparency Mechanisms, 4(1) Trade, L. & Dev. 19 (2012) [available here] Authors: Gabrielle Marceau & Mikella Hurley Introduction to the Article, by Prateek Bhattacharya Transparency has become (if it was not always) the grundnorm in the

The journal Trade, Law and Development recently published its Special Issue on Dispute Settlement at the WTO (available here). I'm going to work with them to conduct an online symposium here on this blog. Here's how it's going to work.  The symposium will comprise