Simon Lester

This is a guest post from Gabriela Sánchez of the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá The International Arbitration system has been experiencing a growing and novel phenomenon that attempts to change the way we conceive it today: the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The use and impact of AI on

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 Victor Crochet, an Associate at Van Bael & Bellis, Brussels, and Vineet Hegde, a PhD researcher in WTO Law at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies Professors Jennifer Hillman and Chad Bown are working on finding solutions to resolve the problem of Chinese

This is a guest post from law professor Jens Lehne: As readers of this blog are well aware, since 2017 the US has blocked all appointments to the WTO Appellate Body, which will lead to the incapacitation of the Appellate Body in December of this year, when the terms of

This is a guest post from law professor David Trubek: The media are full of announcements of a “truce” in the China-US trade war. The deal that is being finalized may halt further escalation for a time, but it does nothing to resolve the deeper issues that lie behind the

This is a guest post from Akhil Raina* & Mattijs Kempynck** Introduction Readers of this blog are all too aware of the many ways in which the United States (US) is rocking the multilateral trade boat: the Appellate Body (AB) is in crisis;  there’s an ongoing “trade war” with