The Society of International Economic Law is pleased to announce the results of the 2009 SIEL/CUP Essay Prize Competition. Winner Krzysztof Pelc, 'Eluding Efficiency: Why Do We Not See More Efficient Breach at the WTO?' Highly Commended Lisa Hemingway, 'What's in a Turn? A

From Arlen Specter: I have a two-part question, and just a brief statement of the issue. We have lost 2.3 million jobs as a result of the trade imbalance with China between 2001 and 2007. The remedies to save those jobs are very ineffective -- long delays, proceedings before

In the WSJ, economist Matthew Slaughter writes: Academic research, including most recently by Harvard's Mihir Desai and Fritz Foley and University of Michigan's James Hines, has consistently found that expansion abroad by U.S. multinationals tends to support jobs based in the U.S. More investment

From a draft paper by Richard Stewart of NYU Law School, entitled "THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION: MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS OF GLOBAL ADMINISTRATIVE LAW": The WTO imposes extensive GAL requirements of transparency, participation, reason giving and review on decision making by members’ domestic administrative bodies in order to ensure even-handed

From the AP: President Barack Obama is pitching his $8 billion high-speed rail program to Americans as a jobs generator that will revitalize the domestic rail industry. But the full picture is more complicated. Building ultra-fast trains won't create the kind of high-tech, high-paying jobs Americans covet any

In the China - Publications AB report, the EU, a third participant in the appeal, was very influential on one particular issue.  In fact, I'm not sure I've ever seen a third participant have this much impact on the AB's reasoning.  Here's