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12th GNLU International Moot Court Competition, 2020

This is from the Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar (GNLU): The 12th edition of GIMC is scheduled to be held from February 12-16, 2020 in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. The GNLU International Moot Court Competition (GIMC) has, over the past decade, served as a unique platform for law students from

Call for Entries: RMLNLU-CTIL Conference on International Trade Law

This is from the Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow: The Journal Committee at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National University, Lucknow, in collaboration with Centre for Trade and Investment Law, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade is organising RMLNLU- CTIL Conference on International Trade Law (7th RMLNLU International Legal

Guest Post: Dani Rodrik and the Hawks: A field guide to the China-US Trade War

This is a guest post from law professor David Trubek: The media are full of announcements of a “truce” in the China-US trade war. The deal that is being finalized may halt further escalation for a time, but it does nothing to resolve the deeper issues that lie behind

Is One Panel Meeting Enough?

This is from last week's India - Export Related Measures panel report: 1.3.2 Single substantive meeting of the Panel with the parties 1.9. On 3 August 2018, the Chairperson of the Panel, on behalf of the Panel, held a meeting with the parties to obtain their

Non-Violation Claims Against National Security Measures

This is from the U.S. third party oral statement in the United Arab Emirates – Measures Relating to Trade in Goods and Services, and Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (DS526) dispute: III. Negotiating History Of GATT 1994 Article XXI(b) 12. The negotiating history of these essential security

Guest Post: US Narrative on Trade Unilateralism: Insights from DS543

This is a guest post from Akhil Raina* & Mattijs Kempynck** Introduction Readers of this blog are all too aware of the many ways in which the United States (US) is rocking the multilateral trade boat: the Appellate Body (AB) is in crisis; there’s an ongoing “trade war” with

What Kinds of Measures Should Trade Agreements Target?

A group of scholars (including Rob Howse of this blog) has a new proposal for how to manage U.S.-China trade relations better. I may comment on the broader proposal at some point (and Rob may blog about it himself), but in the meantime, as I sometimes like to

UNCITRAL and ISDS Reform: Visualising a Flexible Framework

By Anthea Roberts and Taylor St John In UNCITRAL, states have broken through the impasse of the incrementalist and systemic reformer camps. They have all agreed that they want to pursue systemic reform, but they have different ideas about what that entails and what to prioritise. In broad terms, agreement

Two Faces of (De-) Globalization

Two very different observations on (de-) globalization have caught our eyes lately. First of all, according to the most recent statistics provided by the Global Trade Alert (composed by Prof. Simon Evenett at St. Gallen), pro-trade and investment measures across borders have shown the biggest decline ever for the

UNCITRAL and ISDS Reform: In Sickness and In Health

By Anthea Roberts and Taylor St. John UNCITRAL Working Group III met in Vienna last week to continue its discussions about how to reform investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). In April 2019, the Working Group agreed that the ISDS system suffered from significant problems and required reform. In colloquial terms,