Simon Lester

Yet another interesting trade job: Director, Division on International Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities, D-2 DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS:   29 Dec 2009 DATE OF ISSUANCE:   30 Oct 2009 ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT:   United Nations Conference on Trade and Development DUTY STATION:   Geneva VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT NUMBER:   09-ECO-UNCTAD-422453-R-GENEVA (G) ... Responsibilities This position is

Lots of good jobs to post about these days.  Here's another: The Teaching Fellow in international economic law, business and policy will work with candidates in the LLM specialization in IELBP. The fellow will assume significant academic, advising and administrative responsibilities. He or she will be responsible for

From the AP: Tobacco advocates are seething over a new Canadian law they claim will snuff out sales of cigarettes packed with U.S. burley, and they are fighting back to protect their export sales. They are asking U.S. trade officials to take their complaints to the World Trade

I had been wondering if Indonesia would go forward with a WTO complaint against the U.S. ban on clove cigarettes, but had not heard anything.  Perhaps this is why: A few weeks ago ... clove cigarettes were banned in the U.S. on the grounds that their fragrance is a

For those of you who get excited about PPMs (process and production methods), on one side or the other, I just came across two such issues. 1.  In a policy paper about sustainability standards for biofuel products, economists Harry de Gorter and David R. Just make the following point: 28.

I did a recent post about a job opening at the Advisory Centre on WTO Law, in which I said that these opportunities don't come along very often, so anyone who might possibly be interested should apply.  Well, here's another job just like that: The Secretariat