Tomer Broude

Having failed to promote the de-judicializing ideas included in its 2003 proposal on DSU review (jointly with Chile), calling for increased Member "review", "control" and "guidance" to/of the dispute settlement process, the US has recently introduced some new ideas to DSU review that

I thought this write-up by Jawad Anani in Beirut's Al-Hayat was interesting, giving a view that is external to US politics: http://english.daralhayat.com/business/03-2006/Article-20060316-03ace06f-c0a8-10ed-0008-254d564638e0/story.html The bottom line: "Under these circumstances, "Dubai Ports" put forth many proposals to entrust the

A "bio-piracy" case to watch: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/international/africa/21lake.html?_r=1 (free registration required). Some earlier reports ( http://www.grain.org/bio-ipr/?id=409 ) mention that Public Interest Intellectual Property Advisors, Inc. (http://www.piipa.org/) have been retained to pursue

It's an unheard of, 8-month old case from a negligible jurisdiction in global terms, but potentially interesting to bloggers and bloggees nevertheless: HCJ 2587/04 Bukhris et al. v. Hedera Tax Assessor, 23.6.05, a petition brought before the Israeli Supreme Court sitting as High Court of

Mittal is playing the WTO card on the French steel investment issue, courtesy of Kamal Nath, Indian trade minister (see Reuters report). From the sidelines, and without any prejudice to the merits of the Indian claims themselves, there is something poetically just about this development. See how Nath almost gleefully