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Tariff History Emerges as a Key Issue in the U.S. Presidential Contest (Just Kidding!)

As the culture wars have dominated the political debate in recent years, it feels as though the quality of the economic policy discussion has suffered. Some of the economic topics that keep coming up are of little interest to most voters, and are being talked about in a way that

Why the US Should Respond Honestly to China's WTO Complaint

Because China is acting responsibly to uphold the multilateral trading system and to challenge US illegality in a peaceful way, the US should cooperate by facilitating the rapid response mechanism envisioned in the DSU for the adjudication of trade complaints. Let the panel do its job to call out t

Guest Post: A Tribute to Frieder Roessler from Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann

This is a guest post by Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, emeritus Professor at the European University Institute, Florence (Italy), and legal consultant at the World Trade Organization (Geneva); former professor of European law at Geneva University, and of international economic law at Geneva’s Graduate Institute of International Studies Frieder Rössler

Call for Papers: Geoeconomics, Trade and Investment: What role for Latin American countries?

This is from the Latin American Network of International Economic Law: Third Edition of the Global Jurist Award Call for Papers (CfP) - Deadline extension Geoeconomics, Trade and Investment: What role for Latin American countries? The Law Faculties of Universidad Externado (Colombia) and the Federal University of São Paulo, along with

Call for Submissions: Trade, Law and Development

The journal Trade, Law and Development has issued a call for submissions for its Winter 2024 issue (Vol. 16, no. 1). The theme is: "Navigating the Murky Waters of Economic Treaties in International Trade." The deadline is October 1, 2024. [update: the deadline has been extended until November

Call for Papers: ASIL International Economic Law Biennial Conference

This is from ASIL’s International Economic Law Interest Group: The next ASIL International Economic Law Biennial Conference will be held on May 16-17, 2025, at Michigan Law, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Applications are now open for paper and panel proposals, and the deadline by which to submit a

J.D. Vance on Tariffs

It was not a particularly productive discussion, but here is a transcript of NBC's Kristen Welker talking to J.D. Vance about tariffs last weekend: Welker: Vice President Kamala Harris, in making her case, said that the tariff plans Donald Trump is proposing will hurt the middle class.

U.S. Leadership on Trade and Climate Policy

In a recent Foreign Affairs piece entitled "The Case for a Clean Energy Marshall Plan," Brian Deese -- the Director of the White House National Economic Council from 2021 to 2023 and a current economic adviser to Kamala Harris -- sets out a vision for how a Harris administration might

Guest Post: Are the revisions to the EU’s ‘Bolar’ system compatible with TRIPS?

This is a guest post from Maarten Meulenbelt, Chris Boyle, Lauren Shapiro, Maryanne Kamau, and Alix Vermulst of Sidley Austin. The full article on which the post is based is available here. In the EU, much has been written about the so-called “Pharma Review” proposals, published by the European

Guest Post: Why couldn’t the Russia-Ukraine BIT be used to claim compensation for war damage and frozen Russian assets to satisfy these investment awards?

This is a guest post from Csongor István Nagy, Professor of Law at the University of Galway, Ireland, and at the University of Szeged, Hungary, and research professor at the HUN-REN Center for Social Sciences, Hungary At first it may raise eyebrows. But think it over! Why couldn’t