Dani Rodrik has a new paper up at NBER, entitled "Putting Global Governance In Its Place." Two things jumped out at me. First, it surprised me that in discussing when regulatory standards are protectionist, he seems unaware of the national treatment principle: Unlike in the case of tariffs

This is from 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: The Journal Committee at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National University, Lucknow, in collaboration with Centre for Trade and Investment Law, Indian Institute

This is a guest post from Anna Marhold, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Law and the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University, based on her article, "Externalising Europe’s energy policy in EU Free Trade Agreements: A cognitive dissonance between promoting sustainable development and

USTR has posted its first written submission in the DS543 case, which is China's complaint against the U.S. Section 301 measures. Among other things, there is a GATT Article XX(a) public morals argument. I'll let readers be the judge of all this. I wanted

This is a guest post from Csongor István Nagy, professor of law, University of Szeged and HAS-Szeged Federal Markets “Momentum” Research Group In this post, I demonstrate three points. First, at the present stage of development the security exception is only slightly judicialized. Second, acts adopted under this exception may

This is a new paper from Graham Cook of the WTO: For those interested, here is a new paper called "Humpty Dumpty and the Illusion of 'Evolutionary Interpretation' in WTO Dispute Settlement" included in Evolutionary Interpretation and International Law (which brings together authors from diverse areas