I think it has been pretty obvious from my blogging that I've developed an interest in investment law and disputes over the past year or so.  As a result, this looks quite interesting to me: Walid Ben Hamida and Todd Weiler, will be editing a TDM Special Issue

Speaking of dissents, as we have been, I just noticed something from the U.S. China - Exportation of Raw Materials submission.  As mentioned in the last post, the U.S. made the following argument: 363. The reasoning of a General Agreements on Tariff and Trade 1947 (“GATT 1947”) panel

Next week USTR will be doing more online chatting about the TPP.  Here's the question I submitted this time: When do you anticipate that draft negotiating texts for specific topics will be completed?  When will they be released to the public? You can submit your question here: http:

From a book review in the Economist: the Chinese Communist Party ordered local officials in Hubei province to smoke nearly a quarter of a million packs of Hubei-branded cigarettes in order to boost the local economy and stave off lay-offs. Official cigarette monitors roamed the province making sure that people

I agree with Henry’s comment that dissents are more easily justified at the panel stage, when they have the potential to provide additional information/arguments for the Appellate Body to review.  However, I don’t agree that they should be forbidden at the Appellate Body level.  While I think

Thanks to Meredith for suggesting this and Simon for setting it up. The basic idea – expressed in a purely personal capacity - is in the article on the JIEL website and Simon has already summarised it, and I will not here repeat the details. I think that Meredith and I

First I’d like to thank Simon for suggesting this dialogue, and also James, who was kind enough to share his article with me before it went to print.  In keeping with the format agreed to with James and Simon, in this post I will make some opening remarks, and

With Dan Griswold of Cato and Todd Tucker of Global Trade Watch. If you go to the C-Span page, you can search the transcript.

I'm pleased to introduce a debate on the issue of dissents in WTO dispute settlement decisions.  Those of you who read the JIEL regularly may have seen two articles setting forth different views on the proper role of dissents.  In 2006, Meredith Kolsky Lewis of Victoria University of