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The Appellate Body Crisis: What Needs To Happen Now?

This is from the U.S. statement at the February 25 DSB meeting: • We also note that at least one Member has said that the United States should table its own proposal. The United States has made its views on these issues very clear: if WTO Members say that we

Guest Post: Consent and Coercion in Trump’s Trade Policy

This is from law professor Frank Garcia: The current U.S. Administration has made coercing our trade partners and allies a signature of its approach to our transnational economic relationships. No one denies the need for trade to be a mutually beneficial bargain, since that is in fact what trade

Responding to "Social Dumping" with Tariffs

This is from a recent paper by Greg Shaffer: (i) Protection against social dumping. Claims of unfair trade proliferated following the election of Donald Trump. The underlying problem from a social policy perspective, however, is not “unfair trade” as viewed through the traditional WTO lens of product dumping because antidumping

TPP Roster of Panel Chairs

From Australia DFAT: Expressions of Interest: Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) Roster of Panel Chairs The Australian Government is seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified individuals to be considered for nomination to the roster of panel chairs pursuant to the dispute settlement chapter of the

Call for papers ESIL-sponsored conference on Actors in International Investment Law Beyond Claimants, Respondents and Arbitrators

The University Paris II Panthéon-Assas is hosting, in the context of the Investment Law Initiative, a Colloquium on ‘Actors in International Investment Law: Beyond Claimants, Respondents and Arbitrators’, which will take place on 26 and 27 September 2019, in Paris, France. This year’s Colloquium focuses on actors in

Oxford International Organizations - Call for Contributors

From Geraldo Vidigal: We are looking for international law experts to contribute to #OxfordInternationalOrganizations in the field of International Economic Law, including international trade law, international investment law, international financial law and international tax law. Contributions consist of concise expert commentary on a document of relevance for an international organization

Call for Papers: The New Generation of EU FTAs: External and Internal Challenges

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 generation of EU free trade agreements.

Are Trade Wars Missing the Point? (Part II)

In the previous post, I introduced main finding of the recent McKinsey report (“Globalization in Transition: The Future of Trade and Value Chains.”) The report highlighted the growing importance of services and the relative decline of goods production in global value chains (GVCs). Likewise, GVCs have become more technology and

Guest Post: De facto Recognition of a Government In Posse and the Legality of the US/UK Financial Sanctions Against Venezuela

This is a guest post from Marcin Menkes, Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Law at Warsaw School of Economics: The dramatic descent of Venezuela from riches to rags—from a fiery critic of “the devil” in the White House and sponsor of Cuban “revolutionary democracy” to an economic

ANZSIL International Economic Law Workshop in Christchurch

The School of Law at the University of Canterbury is hosting the ANZSIL International Economic Law Workshop in Christchurch this Friday. You can find the program here.