In a new Issue Brief, which it describes as "a product of discussions between IIEL faculty, students and stakeholders," Georgetown's Institute of International Economic Law has the following proposals for reforming the Appellate Body transition rules: Proposal 1: Limit Carry-Over to Disputes Where the Hearing Has

As we all know, "should" means something very different from "shall." Except when it doesn't. This is from the Korea - Radionuclides panel report circulated last week: 7.9.5.1 Does Annex C(1)(g) impose a positive obligation? 7.426. Japan relies

Debra Steger passes along information on an international law professor position at the University of Ottawa: The Common Law Section of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa invites applications for the following tenure-track faculty positions. Title of the position: Assistant Professor or Associate Professor Area of expertise:

Those of you who read the original version of this post, Simon Lester has pointed out that there may be a confusion.  Please disregard, til I come back with something more developed.

This is from Inside US Trade: During a meeting with their U.S. counterparts this week, Canadian negotiators will pitch the elimination of the deal’s investor-state dispute settlement provision -- and the U.S. is expected to agree to that proposal, allowing for what private-sector and congressional sources called

The revised text is out, courtesy of New Zealand and Canada (and perhaps others -- I didn't check all of them). The first thing to note is that we all -- that is, everyone who responded to my tweet about this -- have agreed to keep calling it

This is from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies: The Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies are jointly organizing a conference on "The EU and its Partners in Global Governance: Trade, Investment, Tax and

The Harvard International Law Journal is currently seeking submissions, and is particularly interested in receiving papers on topics in international economic law. View the call for papers here.

I recently participated in an ICTSD event on RTA disputes, and my assignment was to look at how compliance went in cases in which there was a panel ruling. I did my best to dig up information, but it's hard to find it for many cases. Luckily, there