Simon Lester

As I first talked about here, it appears that the Trump administration has convinced China to sign on to a new kind of "unilateral" dispute resolution process as part of the the Economic and Trade Agreement between the U.S. and China, which was released today. Here'

The conference is organised by the Postgraduate and Early Professionals/Academics Network of the Society of International Economic Law (PEPA/SIEL) in collaboration with the International Law Forum and other sponsors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. SIEL’s Postgraduate and Early Professionals/Academics Network (PEPA/SIEL) is, among other

This is a guest post by Philippe de Baere, Henry Gao, Todd Friedbacher, Iain Sandford, Nicolas Lockhart, Isabelle Van Damme, Tania Voon, Alan Yanovich[1] Ever since countries first agreed rules to regulate international trade, they have disagreed about what the rules mean.  International trade disputes raise sensitive political and

This is from Lance Compa of Cornell Law School: ... a more than two-months-long strike provoked by a multibillionaire Mexican business tycoon has cast a cloud over the new trade pact’s provisions to strengthen workers’ rights. Citing management’s bad-faith bargaining, nearly 2,000 workers have walked picket lines since

This post is by law professors David Gantz and Sergio Puig Introduction The U.S. House of Representatives approved December 19 the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) by an overwhelming margin of 385-41. The Senate is expected to do the same in mid-January. As everyone knows by now, USMCA is a

This is a guest post from law professor Bashar H. Malkawi: Japan imposed tighter export control measures on chemicals used by South Korean companies to produce semiconductors and smart phones and TV displays. In addition, Japan removed South Korea from a "white list" of twenty-seven preferential trading partners