From law prof Jarrod Wong: The Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) will be holding its Second Annual Winter Forum at the Biltmore Hotel in Miami, Florida on January 24-25, 2013. The first half of the Winter Forum will showcase two works-in-progress selected pursuant to a Call-for-

Law professor Leon Trakman writes about China's "prolifering investment treaty program": Notwithstanding China’s endorsement of investor-state arbitration more than a decade ago, only one investor claim has been initiated against it and it was withdrawn.  This does not necessarily mean that foreign investors will

Here's a letter sent by a number of members of congress -- including frequent trade critic Mike Michaud -- to President Obama relating to the TPP: August 2, 2012 The Honorable Barack Obama President of the United States 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. President: Rules-based trade

Here is a table showing WTO complaints (consultations requests) for 2004-2012: YearNumber of Standard DSU Complaints, by year 2012 14 2011 8 2010 17 2009 14 2008 19 2007 13 2006 20 2005 12 2004 19 Here's a similar table for "matters", which is a

Over at the European Law Blog, Jess Lawrence provides a good summary of a recent ECJ case: Last week’s Xinanchem judgment, however, is a significant step along the path toward normalized trade relations between China and the EU. In this case, which Advocate General Kokott called “of fundamental importance

Recently, domestic solar cell (module) producers in both sides of the Atlantic have redoubled their efforts to stop the influx of cheaper rival products from China.  Predictably, they rely heavily on trade remedies such as antidumping measures. Of course, protectionism of this sort, in particular amid the recession, is hardly

I did a post on this on the Cato blog here.  Here's an IELP version.  (You can see the difference in tone with what I say on this blog!) We now have the technical details of the Olympic uniform controversy, as the proposed Senate legislation is available.   Some

I'm reposting this because the submission deadline is coming up.  From the ASIL/IEcLIG: 2012 Biennial Interest Group Conference: Re-Conceptualizing International Economic Law: Bridging the Public/Private Divide George Washington University Law School Washington D.C., USA November 29-December 1, 2012 I.         Conference Theme The ASIL

Yesterday the European Commission submitted a proposal to EU member states to commence negotiations for a FTA with Japan.  The announcement said "Priority in the negotiations will be the elimination of non-tariff barriers to trade on the Japanese market, as well as access to Japan's public