What is the scope of party modifications to the DSU for particular cases, and could it help with the Appellate Body appointment crisis? It may not be an ideal solution, but take a look at the following example and see if it could be applied to the Appellate Body crisis.

This is from Ambassador Lighthizer's responses to the questions for the record from a June 19 House Ways and Means Committee hearing: From Representative Bill Pascrell to Ambassador Robert E. Lighthizer 1. Using Section 301 could invite retaliation. And Mexico and Canada agreed to fix panel-blocking in the

From the advertisement, hat tip to Debra Steger:  "The Common Law Section of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa invites applications for a tenure-track position as an Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in International Economic Law commencing July 1, 2020. APPLICATION DEADLINE: September 30, 2019. International

Two researchers from the Kiel Center for Globalization (Haiou Mao and Holger Görg) have just published a working paper entitled “Friends like This: The Impact of the US – China Trade War on Global Value Chains.”  Based on the notion of “cumulative and indirect tariffs” in global value chains (GVCs), the

This is a guest post from Bashar H. Malkawi, Professor of Law, University of Sharjah Under the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution, the Congress has the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations. In addition, Congress has the exclusive power to regulate commerce among the several states and

Dear Blog Colleagues, Allow me to inform you that a new eBook version of my recent book ( The WTO law of subsidies: A comprehensive approach, Kluwer Law International, June 2019) is now available at Amazon.com. Until now, only a print version was available and a commentator on this blog

Around the beginning of World War II, the Jewish-German thinker Walter Benjamin wrote to his friend Gershom Scholem: "“Every line we succeed in publishing today - no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust it - is a victory wrenched from the powers of darkness.” Benjamin was

By Anthea Roberts and Taylor St John* On 19 July 2019, China submitted its proposal on investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) reform to UNCITRAL. A Chinese version is available, though an English translation is yet to be posted. China reaffirms its commitment to ISDS as an important mechanism for resolving investor-state