It has long been recognized that the Bretton Woods system no longer serves the contemporary international trade order. As Frieder Roessler concluded in his piece "The Relationship Between the World Trade Order and the International Monetary System" (see Chapter 7 of his book, "Essay on the International

For those in Geneva (or those willing to make the trip), DG Trade posted the following on its web site in relation to public access to the DS316 Aircraft panel meeting: External Trade draws your attention to a public viewing of the panel hearing in the WTO dispute between the

People interested in L&E, law reform and development, might be interested in this call for papers published by the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies. I copy the background section below: "The model of the relationship of law to economics provided by the current

Marc's previous post referred to the silence of international trade law on the currency manipulation issue.  Looks like some people are trying to change that, at least under domestic law.  According to a news report, two U.S. Senators, Debbie Stabenow and Jim Bunning, have "introduced legislation

The late Raymond Vernon was fond of saying that Multinational Corporations are everywhere except in economic textbooks. In the same vein, I would say that currency manipulation is everywhere the talk of the day except in international trade law which is strangely silent on this issue. In an interesting article,

Over at Opinio Juris, Julian Ku has some thoughts on recent and past efforts to incorporate labor rights into trade agreements.

Suppose that the current deadlock on the Doha trade talks has been broken as developed countries agreed on the dramatic reduction of agricultural tariffs and subsidies. Would such ostensibly generous concessions be automatically translated into poor countries’ enhanced market access to rich countries’ markets? I question this premise by observing

At the risk of turning this into the "Asian Currency Blog," I came across the following piece by an AEI scholar: In a letter to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson earlier this month, four leading Democratic congressman urged action to pressure the Japanese to strengthen the value of the

The Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies (ISUFI) - University of Lecce and the Phd Programme in International Law and Economics - Bocconi University, Milan have announced a Young Researchers Workshop on Science and Law on Scientific evidence in International and European Law.  It will be held 31st May – 1st June

We've had a number of discussions on this blog about China's currency valuation and possible U.S. WTO complaints in this area.  For example, see here and here.  Now, via Dan Drezner, I see this piece by James K. Galbraith, which, in the context of discussing