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Simon Lester

All Bets Are Off (Literally)

It's official: Due to legislation signed today, online gambling is now banned in the U.S. This means, of course, that the weekly internet poker game among IELP blog members is cancelled. (For the Americans among us, anyway -- the non-Americans can carry on as usual. We Americans

Stiglitz Redux?

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

Hormones Panel Meetings

As mentioned in an earlier post, we have arranged with Anna-Emilia Autio (anna.autio@gmail.com) and Petko Kantchevski (kantche4@hei.unige.ch) 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

The Role of Precedent in WTO Dispute Settlement

At this point, many people are probably zoning out while trying to read all the recent "zeroing" decisions. But buried in the latest panel decision (DS322) is an interesting question regarding the role of precedent in WTO dispute settlement. Briefly, the Panel decided not to follow the approach

Call for Papers

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&

Airbus-Boeing: Now It's A Bidding War

It's rare that the U.S. Department of Defense gets involved in trade disputes, but I guess Airbus-Boeing is such a big dispute that it's drawing everyone in. According to Reuters, as part of the Air Force's "multibillion-dollar competition for aerial

Hormones Panel Meetings

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

Trade and the Environment Report

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

Airbus-Boeing Legal Wrangling

A few weeks ago, Joel posted about how Airbus has filed a motion in DC Superior Court to enjoin Wilmer Hale and Marco Bronckers from representing Boeing in the WTO aircraft disputes, in light of Bronckers' earlier work for Airbus. Airbus later challenged Charlene Barshefsky's role in

The Appellate Body and Zeroing

Over at Opinio Juris, Roger Alford has a post criticizing the Appellate Body's findings on zeroing in the U.S. - Zeroing (DS294) case. He also has an article on the subject, elaborating on his points in the post. I haven't had a chance to read the