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Investment Treaty Counterclaims by States against Investors

Investment Arbitration Reporter has a piece on a recent award involving a counterclaim by a state against an investor. Jarrod Hepburn explains: As discussed in a companion article, a tribunal at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has found one discrete breach of the Spain-Argentina bilateral investment

Deadline Extended: SIEL/JIEL/OUP Essay Prize Competition

This is from SIEL/JIEL/OUP: The deadline for entering the 2016-2017 SIEL/JIEL/OUP Essay Prize competition has been extended to 31 JANUARY 2017. Authors meeting the stated conditions are warmly encouraged to send their submission before /on that date. For further details: http://www.sielnet.org/essayprize

Is There a Non-Violation Claim Against Trump's Tariff Threats?

Donald Trump has suggested he would impose tariffs on car imports from specific companies who produce in Mexico and export to the United States. Ford, GM, and Toyota have all been mentioned. Here is his Toyota tweet: Toyota Motor said will build a new plant in Baja, Mexico, to build

Can a Foreign Investor Bring a NAFTA Chapter 11 Lawsuit Against a Non-Host Country Government?

According to this Reuters article, some foreign investors in Mexico are having financial difficulties as a result of Ford's decision -- partly in response to statements by Donald Trump -- not to build a planned factory there: Ford Motor Co's (F.N) abrupt move to scrap

Call for contributors: Oxford Reports on International Trade Law Decisions

From the Leuven Global Governance Centre and Oxford University Press: Oxford Reports on International Law (ORIL) brings together decisions on public international law from international law courts, domestic courts, and ad hoc tribunals, and is the most up-to-date source of international case law available. The Reports on International Trade Law

How are Foreign and Domestic Firms Treated by Governments?

This is from a new paper by Emma Aisbett and Lauge Poulsen, called "Relative Treatment of Aliens: Firm-level Evidence from Developing Countries": Foreign firms are subject to a wide range of political risks when operating in developing countries that lack strong property rights institutions. Important insights about the

Global Trade Watch on the Lighthizer Nomination

From the Global Trade Watch blog: The nomination of Robert Lighthizer to be U.S. Trade Representative signals President-elect Donald Trump’s interest in altering the trade policy approach that has prevailed through Republican and Democratic administrations for the past two decades. Lighthizer has consistently noted that historically Republicans favored

Is "Mercantilist" a Pejorative Adjective? And What Does It Mean Exactly?

As pointed out by Simon, Robert Lighthizer is probably the next U.S. Trade Representative. In this regard, it is interesting to note that Lighthizer told a congressional panel in 2010 that the WTO's dispute resolution system was ineffective and that the United States “should consider aggressive interpretations

Robert Lighthizer as U.S. Trade Rep

From the WSJ: Donald Trump is expected to name Robert Lighthizer, a former trade official under President Ronald Reagan, to head the U.S. Trade Representative office, the first in a final push of appointments anticipated this week as Mr. Trump fills the remaining senior government vacancies in the run-up

Prospects for a NZ-US FTA

I'm not a fan of letting foreign policy influence trade policy (which is one of the reasons I prefer multilateral trade liberalization to bilateral or regional trade deals, which are particularly susceptible), but there is no question that it sometimes does. In this regard, I often come across