That's the title of a short essay of mine in the Virginia Journal of International Law's online edition.  Here's the main proposal: ... I thus propose an approach that I call "unilateral reciprocal binding trade liberalization." The basic idea is that unilateral liberalization

There have been a number of news reports about the WTO panel report in the Ontario feed-in tariffs case, brought by Japan and the EU.  The report has been issued to the parties, and may be circulated to the public some time in the next month or so.  If

GATT Article XXIII:1 sets out the following types of complaints: If any contracting party should consider that any benefit accruing to it directly or indirectly under this Agreement is being nullified or impaired or that the attainment of any objective of the Agreement is being impeded as the result

I don't hear much talk in the U.S. (or around the world for that matter) these days about climate change in general, much less taking any action to deal with it.  But some day the world economy might pick up, and perhaps then we will get back

Canadian journalist Paul Wells provides a link to a leaked memo written by the European Commission, and offers some commentary here.

Russia's participation as a third party in the seal products dispute between Canada and the EU will be an early opportunity to see how it approaches WTO litigation.  As I have noted in previous posts, Russia has banned imports of seal fur and its market is understood to

From the ACWL: The Advisory Centre on WTO Law (ACWL) is a public international organisation, independent of the WTO, which was established in 2001 to provide legal advice on WTO law, support in WTO dispute settlement proceedings and training in WTO law to developing countries and least developed countries. The

From the Trade, Law and Development editors: Founded in 2009, the philosophy of Trade, Law and Development has been to generate and sustain constructive and democratic debate on emergent issues in International Economic Law and to serve as a forum for the discussion and distribution of ideas – with a specific

There is some famous scholarly debate on whether WTO dispute settlement rulings are binding.  Here's a media take on it, from the CBC news (in the context of the Ontario feed-in-tariff case): The World Trade Organization appears to have upheld a complaint against the Province of

Let me just wrap up the TLD Symposium by saying thanks to everyone who participated, and hopefully readers enjoyed it.  We've never done one of those before, and I was glad the TLD folks proposed it, set it all up, and did much of the work. I think