This is from Canada's counter-memorial submission in the Eli Lilly NAFTA Chapter 11 case: 213. First, Article 1105(1) requires the NAFTA Parties to accord to investors and their investments the customary international law minimum standard of treatment of aliens. That standard, as has been overwhelmingly affirmed

The European Commission has put forward a proposal for implementing the WTO Seal Products decision. Here's the Commission's summary of the proposal: With regard to the MRM exception, the contested discriminatory treatment can only be remedied by removing the MRM exception from the Basic Regulation as

As discussed here, one key issue in the U.S. claim against Guatemala under the CAFTA labor provisions is whether that failure to enforce labor laws was done "in a manner affecting trade between the Parties."  In its written submission, Guatemala criticizes the U.S. view of this

Call for Papers Sociological Inquiries into International Law II 9-10 October 2015 Workshop Theme A growing community of scholars is bringing international law into conversation with sociological research and theory. Major developments over the past years have come from studies across all subfields of international law, from human rights

Over at Opinio Juris, there's a post about a new book by Jens David Ohlin, called The Assault on International Law. Here's the publisher's description: International law presents a conceptual riddle. Why comply with it when there is no world government to enforce it?

This blog has previously discussed California’s ban on foie gras. When teaching WTO law at Stanford in 2012 -- the year the ban entered into force -- I even used the ban as my mid-term exam question! Turns out that on January 7, a US district court judge passed summary

This is from UK business secretary Vince Cable, in remarks at a recent cabinet meeting: Cable acknowledged there have been fears and some myths that US corporates would take the UK to secret tribunals unless all services are privatised under TTIP, but he told colleagues that a reformed investor-state

You may have forgotten it was even going on, but lingering out there, waiting to be dissected and analyzed, is the Article 21.5 dispute in U.S. - Tuna II.  This should be a very interesting test of whether an environmental measure that affects imports can be implemented in a