There are diverging views on what the goal of this Ministerial actually is. One possibility, that seems to be the likely one, is that the objective is not to chart a future course for the Doha caravan, but rather to figure out how to get off. Even the much repeated

Chicago-Kent College of Law, in cooperation with the American Society of International Law's International Economic Law Interest Group and Kim & Chang, presents:   Risk, Science and Law in International Governance   Date: December 5, 2009 (Saturday) Venue: Chicago-Kent College of Law Illinois Institute of Technology 565 West

I guess I'll never get used to the way the Europeans depict their revision of the Common Agricultural Policy, driven by the Union's enlargement process, as a concession in the Doha round. The French Ministers of trade and agriculture repeated it several times at a press

The marathon of Minister's statements in the Ministerial Plenary is on (you can watch them live on the WTO website, recommencing Tuesday morning). The statements are of course very short - three minutes each. Although some statements sound like shopping lists, and others like anthologies of WTO cliches, the

On questions of reforming the WTO and its role in regulation, DG Lamy was very much in the minority opinion at this morning's ICTSD Panel on "Strengthening the Multilateral Trading System". In 2003, you will recall, Lamy (as EU Trade Commissioner) said that the WTO is

A few weeks ago, I conspired with Simon to apply for media accreditation to the WTO's 7th Ministerial Conference taking place in Geneva this week. We thought we would have a blog story in any case: if we were rejected, we could address the WTO's transparency;