By Anthea Roberts and Taylor St John When conducting an international negotiation, the Chair has to ask him or herself: what makes something fly? This question really has two parts. The first concerns the negotiations themselves. Once you’ve taken off and achieved a certain cruising speed and altitude, how

Two announcements of interest, especially for those teaching trade or customs law this academic year in the case of the first, or for those looking for an excuse to come to Miami next week in the case of the latter -- First, the University of Miami School of Law and Customs

The Illegitimate AB Report in Russia - Railway Equipment Steve Charnovitz 5 February 2020 I write this commentary reluctantly.  The World Trade Organization's Appellate Body has been unfairly maligned by the Trump Administration and by the international trade law community.  I say "unfairly" because so far, all

This is a guest post by Lise Johnson and Lorenzo Cotula On January 20-24, 2020, delegates to UNCITRAL’s Working Group III met in Vienna to continue their work on ISDS reform. This was the first session devoted to discussing “structural” reforms, such as a standing investment court and

This is from the WTO's summary of last week's DSB meeting: Morocco said that the anti-dumping measure at issue in its dispute with Turkey in DS513, "Morocco — Anti-Dumping Measures on Certain Hot-Rolled Steel from Turkey", expired on 26 September 2019, and

It is of course now clear that the post-Brexit trading relationship between the UK and the EU is to be governed by an FTA, and that Britain will not remain in a Customs Union with the EU. The 17 October 2019 "Political Declaration" between the EU and