This is a guest post from trade lawyer Bixuan Wu of the Hiways law firm: The EU’s CBAM On June 22, the European Parliament adopted its “first reading” position on the regulation establishing a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). After the vote, rapporteur Mohammed Chahim said the CBAM would

This is from the Managing Editor of Trade, Law and Development: Trade, Law and Development is a student-edited journal published by the National Law University, Jodhpur. The Journal has been consistently ranked as the best law journal in India across all fields and the 10th best journal in the field

This is from Professor Marcin Menkes: The Warsaw School of Economics and the University of Szeged, ELKH Center for Social Sciences, are organizing the ESIL-supported conference on the timely topic: “Russian Aggression on Ukraine from the International Economic Law Perspective“. The conference will take place online in a webinar format

From the SIEL: SIEL Conversations: The Outcomes of MC12 and the Future of the Multilateral Trading System27 June 2022 at 2pm Brussels time Interested in the outcomes of the World Trade Organization MC12? Please join us next Monday on this SIEL Conversation, with present and former officials, negotiators and observers.

This is a guest post from law professor Bashar Malkawi: Throughout much of GATT and then WTO history, consensus has been the norm. For example, article XXV (3) and (4) call for one vote per nation and decisions to be taken by majority vote, but in practice consensus was developed

BIICL has sent information on two upcoming events: 22nd BIICL Annual WTO Conference: Climate Change: Border Carbon Adjustment Approaches and the WTO (July 15) Why are Border Carbon Adjustment (BCA) Approaches being considered by an increasing number of countries? What are the factors to be accounted for to design a