This from SIEL/JIEL/OUP: The deadline for entering the 2016-2017 SIEL/JIEL/OUP Essay Prize competition is fast approaching, and authors meeting the stated conditions are warmly encouraged to send their submission by 15 JANUARY 2017. For further details: http://www.sielnet.org/essayprize

Last week, Joel had a post entitled "US Presidential Power to Terminate Trade Agreements," in which he discussed the difficulties that a U.S. President would have in ending U.S. participation in existing trade agreements, without Congressional consent. His post may have been reassuring to some people

In light of all of the recent talk about the U.S. adopting a VAT-ish tax reform, I thought it was worth revisiting a fundamental question. Everyone seems to be operating under the assumption that a VAT is covered by GATT Article II:2(a) and Article III, and therefore

China's WTO complaint related to certain anti-dumping methodologies used by the US Department of Commerce is here (the parallel complaint against the EU is here).  For now, I'm not going to get into the specific methodologies or AD Agreement legal obligations, but instead will focus on

Julian Ku and John Yoo have an op ed in the LA Times, arguing that the President cannot withdraw the U.S. from NAFTA or the WTO on his own.  Their writing, but probably not their thinking, conflates the issue of withdrawal from the treaty, which the President arguably can

In the latest episode of infliction of suffering on Greece, its Eurozone creditors have halted the recently agreed debt relief plan because the Tsipras government has decided to provide emergency payments to the country's most vulnerable pensioners. The widespread and severe suffering imposed on the Greek people by

Following-up on Joel's great post from a few days ago, here's more on the GOP tax plan, from Reuven Avi-Yonah and Kimberly Clausing: The introduction to the Ryan proposal (the “Blueprint”) states that: This Blueprint represents a dramatic reform of the current income tax system. This

Diane Marie Amann from the University of Georgia shares the following opportunity: The blog IntLawGrrls: voices on international law, policy, practice, will celebrate its first decade with“IntLawGrrls! 10th Birthday Conference” on Friday, March 3, 2017. The daylong event will be held at the Dean Rusk International Law Center of

As noted recently here on this blog, border tax adjustments are a hot topic in tax and trade policy. This issue is not a new one; it has been around for a long time. In his masterpiece "World Trade and the Law of GATT," published in 1969, the

The Athens Public International Law Center (AthensPIL) of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Faculty of Law is hosting, in the context of the Investment Law Initiative, a Colloquium on ‘International Investment Law & the Law of Armed Conflict’, which will take place on October 5 & 6, 2017,