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" Interactions between Investment and Non-Investment Obligations in International Investment Law " by my Hebrew University Colleague Prof. Moshe Hirsch is a systematized analysis of investment tribunals' treatment - perhaps the first - of the overlap between investment law and other areas of international obligation. It's available

Advocacy and rhetoric aside, Oxfam's report on the implementation of the "Paragraph 6 Public Health" TRIPS amendment on patent protection is pretty damning. Much of the objection is against TRIPS-plus and political pressure preventing states with generic medicine production capacity from exercising rights under the December

Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank were awarded the Nobel peace Prize yesterday, for their efforts in developing the practice of micro-credit in Bangladesh for the benefit of the extreme poor, mainly women. Micro-finance is not perfect, but it is a great idea that generally works for the poor. Only incorrigible

The full program of the ASIL International Economic Law Interest Group, November 9th-12th, at the historic Mt. Washington Resort at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, is now online. This year the conference theme is "IEL: the state and future of the discipline", and it is organized around three pillars:

Daniel Kono, a political scientist at UC Davis, has an interesting article in the latest issue (100:3) of the American Political Science Review (APSR), entitled "Optimal Obfuscation: Democracy and Trade Policy Transparency" (the modest abstract follows below; the full article is available here for APSA Members and

Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Fed, has made his views on globalization known in a well publicized speech. Globalization is nothing new, it is the way of the world, free trade is wonderful, a cross between liberty and gravity. This is all well rehearsed and unsurprising. Only towards the end,

In more peaceful days (just a month ago, in fact), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem hosted a roundtable on the EC-Biotech case. Participants were Rob Howse, Mary Footer, Gareth Davies,Oren Perez, Christiane Conrad and myself. It's a bit odd to publish commentary on a Panel Report before

From the relative safety of the shadow cabinet, William Hague advocates a transatlantic free trade zone (see BBC report). For the sake of counterfactual argument, what might such an arrangement imply in terms of legal policy? A few basic suggestions for discussion: - The WTO dispute settlement system, which some

Reportedly, the NAFTA Chapter 11 claims filed by Canadian softwood lumber exporters have been dismissed by the tribunal at a preliminary stage following jurisdictional arguments based on Article 1901(3) NAFTA which reads: "Except for Article 2203 (Entry into Force), no provision of any other Chapter of this Agreement