The sad news today that Professor John Jackson has passed brings back memories of all of his scholarly and professional contributions to international trade law, to the GATT, to the WTO, and to trade scholars and practitioners.  I very much cherished his friendship and have missed him in the past

On Friday, President Obama announced the rejection of Canadian company TransCanada's application to build the Keystone XL pipeline.  He offered a brief explanation here. I'm puzzled by his explanation.  The first reason he gave is that the pipeline would not have created as many jobs as

Following up on my post from last week, just to clarify, I didn't meant to suggest there is a conflict between NAFTA ISDS and TPP ISDS. I wasn't thinking about conflicts at all. (Although I also don't mean to suggest there is no conflict.

This is from Ted Posner, who left it as a comment, but I'm putting it in a separate post: My comment concerns the relationship between "investment damages" and "trade damages." Take a look at article 9.28.2 of the newly released TPP text.

This is from trade lawyer Luiz Eduardo  Salles: The TPP text has been made public. The text is yet subject to legal scrubbing by the signatories, but this version should be nearly identical to the finally authenticated text. There is great excitement with the TPP given the potentially novel disciplines

One issue I've been wondering about for a while is how TPP ISDS will interact with NAFTA ISDS (and ISDS in other FTAs between the TPP parties).  For example, if a Canadian investor in the U.S. wants to bring an investment claim, what would its options be

The TPP "Drafter’s Note on Interpretation of 'In Like Circumstances'" is here. In paragraph 2, it says:  "Articles II.4 [NT] and II.5 [MFN] do not prohibit all measures that result in differential treatment. Rather, they seek to ensure that foreign investors or

Here's another obscure TPP issue I've been following: Will there be a requirement that TPP countries adopt a minimum wage? Article 19.3 of the labor chapter says the following: 2. Each Party shall adopt and maintain statutes and regulations, and practices thereunder, governing acceptable conditions

The TPP text is now available here, among other places.  My understanding is that this is not the "legally scrubbed" text, but it should be virtually identical to the final version. Analyzing the TPP should keep us all busy for the next year or so.  I'll

Now that the TPP text is out, as Simon said, it's time to start talking about it! The Global Economic Law Network (GELN) is hosting the TPP Revealed workshop at Melbourne Law School in one week, on Friday 13 November 2015. At this one day workshop, experts will