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Guest Post: Trade, Security and Stewardship (Part IV): A Variable Framework for Security Governance

This is a guest post from Ben Heath, Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at NYU Law This is the fourth in a series of posts that reconstructs the theory of judicial stewardship embedded in the Russia — Transit panel report on the GATT security exception. In the first post, I described

UNCITRAL and ISDS Reforms: Battles over Naming and Framing

First published on EJIL: Talk! by Anthea Roberts and Taylor St. John* A striking feature of the debates over ISDS reform in the last UNCITRAL session were the battles over naming and framing. In some ways, these battles reflect the power that names and frames have in shaping our understanding

U.S. WTO E-commerce Proposal Reads Like USMCA

The United States has put forward a proposal for the recently launched e-commerce talks at the WTO. Bloomberg's Bryce Baschuk broke the news (and uploaded the document), noting there are many similarities to the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) Digital Trade Chapter (19). He's

Confidentiality of legal arguments in WTO dispute settlement

While the panel report in Russia – Measures Concerning Traffic in Transit (DS512) is best known for its interpretation of Article XXI of GATT 1994, the report also contains an important ruling relating to transparency in WTO dispute settlement. In this dispute, the EU published its third-party submission on the

Guest Post: Trade, Security and Stewardship (Part III): WTO Panels as Factfinders under Article XXI

This is a guest post from Ben Heath, Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at NYU Law This series reconstructs the idea that the Russia — Transit panel report on the GATT security exception was a “constitutional moment” for the WTO. In the first post, I introduced the idea that the report

What Would a Progressive Trade Policy Look Like?

This is from a Vox interview by Zack Beauchamp with Ganesh Sitaraman, a professor at Vanderbilt and "a longtime adviser to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)": Would you say that, broadly speaking, a progressive foreign policy is critical of free trade as an idea, maybe even open to

UNCITRAL and ISDS Reforms: The Divided West and the Battle by and for the Rest

First published on EJIL: Talk! by Anthea Roberts and Taylor St. John* The UNCITRAL debates over ISDS reforms can serve as a real-world laboratory for observing changes in the national interests and policies of different countries, as well as shifts in their geopolitical weight and alignments. As part of

Guest Post: Trade, Security, and Stewardship (Part II): Making Legal Space to Adjudicate Security Matters

This is a guest post from Ben Heath, Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at NYU Law In Part I of this series, I introduced the idea that the Russia — Transit report embeds a conception of the dispute settlement system as a steward of the WTO rules. As I noted in

UNCITRAL and ISDS Reforms: Hastening slowly

First published on EJIL: Talk! by Malcolm Langford and Anthea Roberts* UNCITRAL’s Working Group III on investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) reform continues to attract substantial and growing interest. In the first week of April 2019, a record number of states and observers descended on New York to clarify

Guest Post: Trade, Security, and Stewardship (Part I): The Russia — Transit report’s vision of WTO dispute settlement

This is a guest post from Ben Heath, Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at NYU Law On April 26, the WTO Dispute Settlement Body adopted the first-ever panel report to interpret the “security exception” to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. This exception allows each member state to