From the folks at MOFCOM, here is a Bidding Announcement for MOFCOM's Law Firm Pool for WTO and RTA work: As required by Government Procurement Law of P.R.China, Ministry of Commerce will establish Candidate List of Law Firms by public bidding. And MOFCOM will select the

True, by billing Roberto Azevedo's speech today as a "vision speech," high expectations were set.  Yet even against modest expectations, the result was dismal.  I like Azevedo and I admire his statements about transparency and inclusiveness.  I feel the sincerity of his commitment.  But he has

This proposal related to free trade in environmental goods, from Sweden's National Board of Trade, may be more politically palatable than the one I recently put forward:

Last week, I mentioned Brazilian requirements for local data storage.  What does everyone think about this new proposal out of Brazil to create an email competitor to the major U.S. email providers: The Brazilian government is planning to develop a national email system that is protected from the sort

From the Washington Post: The [Brazilian] government is now introducing changes in the project that are quite problematic. One of them mandates that companies that store any type of Brazilian data have their servers physically located in Brazil. The idea of the government is that having the servers here will

-- The WSJ:  "The entire point of free-trade negotiations is to remove these political obstacles to investment and the movement of goods across borders. The tobacco carve-out is especially counterproductive because its economic importance is so small. The Obama Administration shouldn't let anti-smoking activists interfere with America&

As you may have heard, we are now in the TPP "end game."  What does that mean exactly?  Will we have a completed TPP by the end of the year, as some have indicated?  Or will the pace be more Doha-like? For those of you in the DC

From Sungjoon Cho: 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