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Today's FT has an editorial complaining about the extraterritorial inspections of Ernst & Young (in London) carried out recently by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board under Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX).  The FT's point is that this work is duplicative of UK inspection, and imposes additional (and impliedly

Here is a notice regarding the recently published papers from one of the "WTO at 10 conferences: The WTO at Ten: The Contribution of the Dispute Settlement System", edited by Giorgio Sacerdoti, Alan Yanovich, and Jan Bohanes, assesses the first ten years of the World Trade Organization.  It

The World Bank has just published a new report on doing business in 175 countries, examining regulation and regulatory reform in a number of areas.  The central concern of the report is cost-benefit analysis of regulation:  what types of regulation that seem to provide little benefit are most costly?  This

This from Daniel Drezner's blog: . . . devoted fans of danieldrezner.com can click here to read my just-released book from the Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. Trade Strategy: Free Versus Fair . From the press release: While policymakers agree that promoting trade expansion serves U.S. national interests, they

This from the editors of the Yale Journal of International Law:I am writing on behalf of the Yale Journal of International Law to let you know that we have just issued our call for papers for our annual conference, which will take place this coming March. This year’s

From Sergey Ripinsky of the British Institute of International and Comparative LawI came across the rule in the US legislation (adopted in 1971), which requires to buy 80% of all narcotic raw materials from two countries - India and Turkey - and the remaining 20% from five other countries (the

When I saw today's FT story about a number of Indian states banning Coke and Pepsi because a scientific study had shown that they contained as much as 24 times the amount of permitted pesticide residues, and saw that the soft drink makers had argued that they comply

Marc Busch, Karl Landegger Chair in International Business Diplomacy at Georgetown, has joined our group.  Marc has written widely about international political economy, including extremely interesting empirical work on WTO dispute settlement.

Guest blogger Michael Ewing-Chow of National University of Singapore writes as follows:On 1 Aug 2006, President Bush has extended the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act 2003 for another 3 years. (See http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060801.html )The Press Release from the White House in

It is a pleasure to welcome two more colleagues to the blog.  Andrew Guzman, professor at Boalt Hall School of Law, is an astute commentator on international regulatory issues, public international law, and international trade law.  In addition to his legal credentials, he holds a doctorate in economics.  Junji Nakagawa