From PluriCourts: A position as professor (or associate professor) in International Economic Law is announced at PluriCourts. The application deadline is 1 April. Job Description A position as professor (or associate professor) is announced at PluriCourts, a Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the

I've been saying for some time now that Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is, contrary to conventional wisdom, a shrewd negotiator and tactician (see my post on this blog last summer  bit.ly/1HqHRyA).  These traits were clearly on display this last week, when Europe'

The WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) is at the heart of a controversy in the UK surrounding the boycott  by some local councils of products and services associated with illegal settlements in Palestine.   It has been widely reported in the UK press that the government is imposing severe legal penalties

Monday (February 15, 2016) , a new investor-state hearing began here in Toronto. This was the opening of the Windstream case. Though I seldom comment on these proceedings, especially as I’ve participated in quite a number of these investor-state cases, and their hearings, this opening, at least with

CFR Senior Fellow, and former USTR official, Tom Bollyky makes the case for the tobacco carveout from ISDS in the TPP. Here's an excerpt, but read the whole thing: The Obama Administration has done itself a disservice by not making the basis for the tobacco carve-out clearer.

A couple days ago, I briefly expressed skepticism about the economic estimates being offered up related to the TPP (see also here). Working independently, but with similar ideological priors, here's my Cato colleague Dan Ikenson offering more detailed thoughts: With apologies to my trade economist friends, anyone who

This is from economist, and trade skeptic (to some extent), Dani Rodrik: The bottom line is that neither side’s models generate numbers reliable enough on which a case for or against the TPP can be made. I'm a lot more pro-trade than Dani Rodrik is, but

In India: India's telecoms regulator has blocked Facebook's Free Basics internet service app as part of a ruling in favour of net neutrality. The scheme offered free access to a limited number of websites. However, it was opposed by supporters of net neutrality who argued that

In my daily trade news reading, I was surprised to come across this sentence: [New Zealand] has not lost a dispute at the WTO in 20 years. Can that really be true, I thought?  Luckily, there's a web site that tracks these things, so I looked up the

From TradeLab: POSITION VACANT Project Coordinator, TradeLab – International Economic Law (Trade and/or Investment) Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, together with the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, the University of Arizona, Qatar University School of Law and a number of international partners, is