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Farewell speech of Appellate Body member Peter Van den Bossche

Peter Van den Bossche, departing Appellate Body member, delivered his farewell speech to the WTO Dispute Settlement Body on May 28, 2019. The full text is below, and certain to generate discussion: Ambassador Walker, Deputy Director-General Brauner, Excellencies, colleagues, friends, ladies and gentlemen, I stand here before you with

CHINA's "INDUSTRIAL SUBSIDIES": IS THE WTO's AB JURISPRUDENCE ABOUT THE DEFINITION OF A "PUBLIC BODY" AN INSTANCE OF THE WORST KIND OF JUDICIAL ACTIVISM?

Technically, China's "industrial subsidies" are subsidies granted by State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) that do not fall under the concept of "public body" as understood by the WTO Appellate Body. Recall that a financial contribution in the sense of Article 1 of the SCM could

Seeking Applications for JIEL Editorial Assistant Position

Sent on behalf of Profs. Joost Pauwelyn and Chris BrummerThe Journal of International Economic Law is seeking applications for the position of an Editorial Assistant. This position is half-time and normally for one year, but it has been extended in the past and we are flexible in this respect.

The Book "The WTO Law of Subsidies: A Comprehensive Approach" is now published

Dear Blog Colleagues Allow me please to signal that my book "The WTO Law of Subsidies: A Comprehensive Approach" is now published and available at Kluwer eStore. Best Regards. Marc PRINT format: Kluwer eStore KINDLE format Amazon.com

Call for Papers: ASIL IEcLIG Biennial Conference

From the ASIL: THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW INTEREST GROUP IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE ITS BIENNIAL CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW February 14-15, 2020 TO BE HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW CALL FOR PAPERS The conference will comprise: • Academic paper presentations

III LAwTTIP Young Researchers Workshop - Call for papers

From the LAwTTIP Jean Monnet Network: In the framework of the LAwTTIP Jean Monnet Network, the Institut de l’Ouest: Droit et Europe (IODE, UMR CNRS 6262) of the University of Rennes 1 organises the 3rd Young Researchers Workshop, dedicated to the internal and external challenges linked to the new

Democrats Should Embrace the New Economic Sovereignty (not the Old Globalism)

Should the Democrats oppose Trump's tariffs with a return to the ideology of free trade (albeit with handouts for globalism's losers)? That's the view of Edward Alden, writing this week in Foreign Policy. Alden launches a defense of prior Democratic administrations' support for

The USMCA Sunset Clause as a "Check on Bad Behavior"

This is from testimony by Beth Baltzan at a House Ways and Means Committee hearing yesterday on "Enforcement in the New NAFTA": The Ultimate Check on Bad Behavior: The Sunset Clause The history of U.S. trade policy exposes particular challenges with Europe and Japan, who have had

The Missing Legal Strategy for the US-China Trade War

The Missing Legal Strategy for the US-China Trade War Steve Charnovitz 23 May 2019 The Trump Administration's strategy against China suffers many flaws, the most serious of which is the failure to use judicial procedures in the WTO. As my recent study https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/

Enforcement of the USMCA: Establish a Roster Now?

Bloomberg reports: The White House and congressional Democrats have opened talks to resolve outstanding details that have thus far held up the new North American trade deal, according to people briefed on discussions between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and trade chief Robert Lighthizer. Pelosi told Lighthizer that she will designate