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The SIEL–Hart Prize

This is from Hart Publishing: SUBMISSIONS FOR THE SIEL-HART PRIZE IN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW ARE NOW OPEN! The SIEL–Hart Prize is awarded every two years to an outstanding unpublished manuscript by an early career scholar in the field of International Economic Law. The winner of the SIEL–Hart Prize
Simon Lester 02 Oct 2019 1 min read

A Serious Enforcement Mechanism Will Require Major Changes to USMCA’s Dispute Settlement Provisions

Jennifer A. Hillman is the senior fellow for trade and international political economy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), specializing in U.S. trade policy, the law and politics of the World Trade Organization (WTO), international organizations, and Brexit. As debate over Congressional approval of the Trump Administration’s
Jennifer Hillman 30 Sep 2019 13 min read

A Few Thoughts on the Role of the WTO/AB Secretariats in WTO Disputes

Following-up on Joost's post about his new paper with Krzysztof Pelc on the role of the WTO and Appellate Body Secretariats in WTO disputes, I wanted to offer some brief thoughts. Here's the first one: More seriously, I sort of agree with them, in the sense
Simon Lester 29 Sep 2019 4 min read

Guest Post: GAFA’s Global Investment Tribunal: Is it Going to Stay? Call for a research partner

This is from Marcin J. Menkes of the Warsaw School of Economics: Although none of the GAFA companies –  Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple –  or other major tech giant has taken the first step, publicly, to establish a world investment tribunal, the question to already ask, is whether such an arbitration tribunal
Simon Lester 29 Sep 2019 3 min read

A Special Event: Judicial Conference for U.S. Trade Law To be Held on November 18, 2019 in DC

Judicial Conference for U.S. Trade Law To be Held on November 18, 2019 in DC Steve Charnovitz The United States Court of International Trade has just announced the agenda for its 20th Judicial Conference to be held on November 18, 2019 in Washington, DC.  The judicial conference is an
Charnovitz 27 Sep 2019 1 min read

The Role of the Secretariat in WTO Dispute Settlement (and the AB Crisis)

In order to save independent, two-tiered and binding WTO dispute settlement, US critiques of AB “overreach” must be taken seriously, even if one is not fully convinced by such critiques. If the AB has, indeed, “overreached”, who is actually behind it, and most importantly, how might one “correct the course”
Joost Pauwelyn 26 Sep 2019 3 min read

Tom Graham Clarifies My Earlier Tom Graham Clarification

In the comments section of my blog post earlier this week, Tom Graham commented as follows: My statement as reported by Bloomberg was not inadvertent. It expressed my position accurately: "I have not yet decided [whether I will stay after December 10], and I am watching developments." No
Simon Lester 25 Sep 2019 1 min read

Are Social Media Trade Wars Inevitable?

A Washington Post article from last week, which includes the heading "TikTok Rise Could Signal End To Western Web Dominance" in the print version, describes a Chinese social media platform called TikTok as follows: TikTok has quickly become one of America’s most popular mobile apps, a flashy,
Simon Lester 25 Sep 2019 3 min read

Conference on Socially Responsible Foreign Investment under International Law

Católica|Lisbon School of Law and Católica Global School of Law will host the international conference on Socially Responsible Foreign Investment under International Law. The event will take place at the Lisbon campus of the Catholic University of Portugal next 24 and 25 of October. Entrance is free and registration
Simon Lester 25 Sep 2019 1 min read

Clarifying Tom Graham's Status on the Appellate Body

Last week, Bloomberg ran a story about Appellate Body Member Tom Graham which stated that: ... While Graham’s term ends on Dec. 10, panel members in the past have stayed on to finish WTO cases they’re involved in. If he resigns, the seven-member body would no longer have a
Simon Lester 23 Sep 2019 1 min read

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The Section 301 Surge Continues: Investigating the Adoption/Enforcement/Administration of Forced Labor Import Bans

This Section 301 investigation intends to pressure all sixty named trade partners (even, inexplicably, including Canada and Mexico) to adopt similar enforcement procedures. This announcement is highly problematic for the four reasons I address below.
16 Mar 2026 4 min read

The Section 301 Surge Is Upon Us: Investigating Excess Capacity and Production

The first of a large batch of expected Section 301 investigations has arrived, as USTR announced yesterday that it was initiating investigations on acts, policies, and practices of various countries/economies "relating to structural excess capacity and production in manufacturing sectors."
12 Mar 2026 3 min read

Debunking the "Hyperglobalization" Trade Policy Myth

Policy is often shaped by narratives, and recently there has been a bipartisan effort to create a narrative that, starting in the early 1990s, globalization and free trade went too far.
03 Mar 2026 8 min read

Guest Post: Are President Trump’s New Section 122 Tariffs Legal?

This is a guest post from Bryan Riley and Joe Bishop-Henchman. Bryan is Director of the Free Trade Initiative at the National Taxpayers Union; Joe is Executive Vice President at the National Taxpayers Union Foundation President Trump has issued new 10% tariffs, shortly after raised to 15%, based on Section
24 Feb 2026 6 min read

Section 122 as a (Partial) Replacement for the IEEPA Tariffs

Apparently, this is the era of dusting off old international economic policy statutes and figuring out what they mean and how they work. After the Supreme Court's ruling today in Learning Resources, holding that "IEEPA does not authorize the President to impose tariffs," we are now
20 Feb 2026 5 min read

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