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Simon Lester

TPP Roster of Panel Chairs

From Australia DFAT: Expressions of Interest: Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) Roster of Panel Chairs The Australian Government is seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified individuals to be considered for nomination to the roster of panel chairs pursuant to the dispute settlement chapter of the Comprehensive

Call for papers ESIL-sponsored conference on Actors in International Investment Law Beyond Claimants, Respondents and Arbitrators

The University Paris II Panthéon-Assas is hosting, in the context of the Investment Law Initiative, a Colloquium on ‘Actors in International Investment Law: Beyond Claimants, Respondents and Arbitrators’, which will take place on 26 and 27 September 2019, in Paris, France. This year’s Colloquium focuses on actors in international

Oxford International Organizations - Call for Contributors

From Geraldo Vidigal: We are looking for international law experts to contribute to #OxfordInternationalOrganizations in the field of International Economic Law, including international trade law, international investment law, international financial law and international tax law. Contributions consist of concise expert commentary on a document of relevance for an international organization

Call for Papers: The New Generation of EU FTAs: External and Internal Challenges

In the framework of the LAwTTIP Jean Monnet Network, the Institut de l’Ouest: Droit et Europe (IODE, UMR CNRS 6262) of the University of Rennes 1 organises the 3rd Young Researchers Workshop, dedicated to the internal and external challenges linked to the new generation of EU free trade agreements.

Guest Post: De facto Recognition of a Government In Posse and the Legality of the US/UK Financial Sanctions Against Venezuela

This is a guest post from Marcin Menkes, Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Law at Warsaw School of Economics: The dramatic descent of Venezuela from riches to rags—from a fiery critic of “the devil” in the White House and sponsor of Cuban “revolutionary democracy” to an economic

ANZSIL International Economic Law Workshop in Christchurch

The School of Law at the University of Canterbury is hosting the ANZSIL International Economic Law Workshop in Christchurch this Friday. You can find the program here.

Section 301 as an Enforcement Tool for the USMCA

This is from Inside US Trade: U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on Wednesday suggested that Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 could be used to enforce provisions in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, senators told Inside U.S. Trade. Following a meeting with the Senate Finance Committee

Communication from Honduras on the Issue of Precedent

This is another very helpful communication from Honduras on the functioning of the Appellate Body: 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1. In furtherance of the communication dated 23 July 2018 and reiterating the importance of the Dispute Settlement System within the broader WTO framework, Honduras would like to address the issue of

The Third ISDS Tobacco Carveout

The TPP ISDS tobacco carveout was the first, the Singapore - Australia FTA update was the second. Now we have a third example, carried by Singapore over to the Singapore - Kazakhstan BIT: CHAPTER III: DISPUTE SETTLEMENT SECTION ONE: SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES BETWEEN A PARTY AND AN INVESTOR OF THE

CJEU AG Opinion on CETA ICS

The CJEU AG opinion on the compatibility of CETA ICS with EU law -- that's a lot of acronyms, but I'm sure this blog's readers can follow! -- was released earlier this week (my vague sense from EU law experts is that it is