By now, most of you are probably familiar with this ECJ ruling: Internet companies can be made to remove irrelevant or excessive personal information from search engine results, Europe's top court ruled on Tuesday in a case pitting privacy campaigners against Google. The Court of Justice of the

Suppose someone asked you if you were to support, say, anti-smoking laws if there were no factual evidence that smoking was harmful?  I guess I'd have to say no.  Like most people I suspect, I don't like to think of myself as indifferent to facts or

From what I can tell, Australia has usually been pretty good about transparency in terms of its WTO dispute and investment arbitration proceedings.  It generally posts its submissions online. But as Investment Arbitration Reporter tells us, it is holding back on the briefs in the plain packaging investment arbitration, because

From a Canadian news article published in October of last year: There's a new pothole on the long, bumpy road towards a Canada-Europe free trade deal: whether human rights and weapons of mass destruction should be addressed in a side agreement to the overall pact. Diplomats from the

The aim of this workshop is to help bring contemporary international law scholarship into a closer conversation with a number of inspiring and theoretically rich literatures on law and markets deriving from traditions of thinking within sociology and anthropology.  We are convinced that, particularly within the field of international economic

Now that the plain packaging WTO panel has been composed, here are some issues that I've been wondering about related to the case: * If a ban on using trademarks on the product itself violates the TRIPS Agreement, does a ban on advertising -- which includes a ban on

Here are the last three WTO complaints (before today): * In December of last year, we had Russia bringing a complaint against EU cost adjustment methodologies and anti-dumping measures (DS474). * Then on April 8, the EU complained about Russian measures on the import of live pigs and pork products (DS475). * And

Just announced: Chairperson: Mr Alexander Erwin Members:    Mr François Dessemontet, Ms Billie Miller Erwin (South Africa) was on the Renewable Energy/Feed-in Tariff panel; Dessemontet (Switzerland) was on Section 211 many years ago.  Miller (Barbados) is a first time panelist.  Some biographical info for her is here. ADDED: To clarify,

From the Japan Times: The European Union is insisting on a human rights clause linked to a proposed economic partnership agreement (EPA) with Japan, it was learned Monday. In negotiations between the EU and Japan on a strategic partnership agreement (SPA), which are held in parallel with their EPA talks,

The answer is NO, according to our own Simon Lester.  In his posting on the Huffington Post today, Simon presented an excellent case for multilateralism.  In particular, Simon underscored various multilateral disciplines unique to the WTO, such as those governing customs administration and trade remedies (antidumping and subsidies).  In this