Simon Lester

I found this to be an excellent discussion of "likeness", and the non-discrimination principle more generally, under the GATS: /content/files/english/res_e/reser_e/ersd200608_e.pdf .  It's by Mireille Cossy of the WTO's Trade in Services division.  I felt like she

Jalal Alavi, PhD Candidate at the University of Neuchatel, writes the following: The EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson has urged the EU ministers yesterday to boost trade and development aid, as promised, to help him conclude market-opening deals with 78 countries in the ACP region. He further asked EU to

The other day Joel posted about the suggestion by Joseph Stiglitz that the EU should impose trade barriers on the U.S. to coerce a change in U.S. environmental policy.  Now I see that Jonathan Adler, over at the Volokh Conspiracy, has posted about a similar proposal: [according to

As mentioned in an earlier post, we have arranged with Anna-Emilia Autio ([email protected]) and Petko Kantchevski ([email protected]) to report on the panel meetings in the Hormones Sanctions cases (DS320 and DS321).  Due to the length of the meetings, it probably doesn't make

Here is a call for papers from the Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy (which is part of the Asian Center for WTO & International Health Law and Policy, National Taiwan University): http://www.law.ntu.edu.tw/center/wto/05publications.asp?tb_index=40 It&

The current WTO panel proceedings in the Hormones Sanctions cases (DS320 and DS321) are noteworthy not just for the interesting issues under the SPS Agreement and the DSU, but also because this panel was the first to open its meetings with the parties to the public.  This took place in

Reuters is reporting on what they refer to as a "UN study" that argues "[t]he world needs clearer rules to judge when trade curbs on environmental or health grounds are justified or are simply protectionist."  It also "urged governments to work out a common