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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Anthea Roberts and Taylor St. John  On 17 July 2019, South Africa made its submission to UNCITRAL on investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) reform in which it seeks a “paradigm-shift” in investment law. In keeping with our description of South Africa as a “widener” in the UNCITRAL debates,