Tomer Broude

One of the newly published SIEL working papers is The Doctrine of Ordre Public and the Sino-US Copyright Dispute by Prof. Kong Qingjiang of Zhejiang Gongshang University. The paper addresses the ongoing dispute in China — Measures Affecting the Protection and Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights , arguing that an ordre public

The working papers that will be presented at the Inaugural Conference of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) in Geneva (July15-17) are gradually being uploaded to a dedicated "online proceedings" website at the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN), here. The conference itself has been heavily oversubscribed and

From an initial reading (and for the sake of discussion), the latest Panel Report (DS360 -- India - Additional and Extra-Additional Duties on Imports from the United States) released last week appears to enrich WTO jurisprudence on the fundamentals of tariff bindings under Article II GATT, if only because of

Please note the following event: The American Society of International Law in conjunction with its International Organizations, International Economic Law, and Law in the Pacific Rim Region Interest Groups as well as The Asian Society of International Law presents ASEAN’s Evolving Legal and Institutional Framework Panelists: Ms. Amelia PorgesCounsel,

I'm going to rip-off Simon's regular series title to seek comments on an upcoming article of mine co-authored with my colleague, Dr. Doron Teichman, an expert on crime displacement. Entitled "Outsourcing and Insourcing International Crime: The Political Economy of Globalized Criminal Activity" (forthcoming in

Not a question of public morals, as you might have thought, but of exhaustible natural resources etc.. This corporation claims to hold the "holy grail" of the rubber industry, the ability to de-vulcanize rubber, permitting its recycling. There was no escaping their four-page, up-front advert in the latest

Over at OpinioJuris, Roger Alford voices some concerns about the willingness of a Chinese AB Member to rule against China. AB Member have so far had a very good record of impartiality, with EC and US members regularly contributing to reports ruling to the detriment of their home state. Would

Fernando Teson (with co-author Jonathan Klick) has an interesting take on trade and global justice. See here. This is the abstract: "Economists generally agree that free trade leads to economic growth. This proposition is supported both by theoretical models and empirical data. Further, while the empirical evidence is more

This recently reported development in NAMA negotiations is noteworthy, because it is as far as I can tell a first really overt break from China's so-far rather accommodating diplomacy in the WTO. The repeated reference to veto rights is worryingly reminiscent of the UN Security Council, where China

Prof. Jose Alvarez, President of the American Society of International Law, has posted an incisive presidential column celebrating the new (at least relative) inclusiveness and transparency of international legal discourse afforded by the access of academics and practitioners (and usually, everybody else) to the internet with its blogs. He notes