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It appears that the EC has decided not to appeal the panel ruling in Biotech.  Why?  And what are the jurisprudential and practical implications of this decision?

I suppose that the irony of the U.S. and Russia reaching agreement in Hanoi, of all places, on a bilateral agreement to move forward with Russia's accession, was lost on no one.  Does this move have geopolitical significance?  Putin thinks so:  "This creates a favourable background

Pascal Lamy was in the U.S. last week, and spoke in a number of academic and other settings.  (He also completed the NY Marathon on Sunday--practice for the Doha Round, perhaps.)  See the story and pictures about his visit to Fletcher.  Lamy spoke quite a bit about governance,

Christoph Herrmann of EUI asks the following question: One question that puzzles me already for quite some time is the "naming" of the EC in the WTO framework. E.g. dispute settlement reports consistently refer to the "European Communities", however, in singular. Well, technically, this is

Statoil has recently settled with the U.S. SEC regarding its bribery of Iranian officials in order to secure lucrative oil and gas rights in Iran.  So, one might ask, why would a Norwegian company making a bribe in Iran have to deal with the SEC?  The U.S. Foreign

I've just had a look at the program for International Law Weekend--October 26-28, in NYC.  It looks like an interesting, and sometimes even edgy, event.  Lots of panels on international business law, and some interesting international economic law subjects as well.  And it's free

It's a great pleasure to welcome Michael Ewing-Chow, one of the leading lights of the National University of Singapore Law Faculty, and Bryan Mercurio, an insightful trade law and policy analyst from University of New South Wales, as contributors to our blog.

Somebody call a lawyer. I just read that Joseph Stiglitz, in an article in the bepress.com "Economist's Voice" publication (thanks to Dan Drezner for mentioning this to me), has argued that Japan, Europe and other signatories of the Kyoto Protocol should bring a WTO case

Clay Risen writes in the current issue of The New Republic as follows: “The most significant challenge [to the liberal economic order, and to U.S. power], arising from the slow collapse of the Doha trade negotiations, is Venezuela's plan to replace the international trade structure with a

I must admit that I was disheartened as I opened the GMO panel report, and my pdf reader told me that it was 2400 pages.  It took a while to open.  The problem is not (just) the challenge to my laziness, but the fact that many of us who might