The Law and Development Institute is hosting its Inaugural Conference in Sydney, on October 16, 2010.  Here's the program, which looks excellent.  I can't seem to copy it into this post in nice formatting, so check it out at the link.

Reader Daniel Crosby points me to this article from the NY Times, which discusses a proposed U.S. law that takes the trade and immigration linkage in a new direction: A Senate bill approved Thursday night by unanimous consent would pay for more security along the Mexico border by raising

Luke Peterson provides the basic details: A review panel at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has annulled a 2007 arbitral award rendered in favour of the Enron corporation and Ponderosa Assets L.P. (hereinafter Enron”) in a dispute arising out of the Argentine financial crisis. The

Regardless of which side of the debate you are on, I think this op-ed by Canadian political science prof Adam Harmes states the issues quite well: As premiers gather for their annual conference in Winnipeg this week, the issue of reducing interprovincial trade barriers will no doubt be a topic

Other bills Speaker Pelosi hopes to pass soon include ... a requirement that foreign manufacturers keep at least one worker stationed in the U.S. so the company can be officially served with court papers.http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/62330That's probably not a big deal for large companies,

I know that not everyone reads the comments, so I thought I'd pull something out of the comments on a previous post by Marc Benitah on the Kosovo ICJ decision.  In our brief back and forth there, Marc pointed me to a statement by Judge Simma in his