There are no doubt many important issues that will be affected by tomorrow's elections in the U.S.  According to the Economist (subscriber only), though, trade policy could experience some of the most noticeable effects: The stalemate of divided government might well lead to better policy, particularly on

From a WTO legal  perspective, it seems that  Stiglitz’s article (" A  New Agenda for Global Warming" ) proposes a mix of  several  strategies that must in fact be carefully distinguished because every strategy rests on the invocation of different dispositions which pose specific legal problems. Even if Sitglitz

One of my favorite topics in trade law is the non-discrimination standard, so I'm always excited when I see that someone has tried to tackle the issue, or at least some aspect of it.  Julia Qin of Wayne State University Law School has just written a paper entitled

Ben Muse has an excellent summary of the latest session of the Korea-U.S. FTA talks.

A while back, Joel mentioned the city of Chicago's ban on foie gras as a good exam question for a trade law class.  Here's another.  Tomorrow, New York's Board of Health "will hold its first public hearing on a proposal to make New

I found this to be an excellent discussion of "likeness", and the non-discrimination principle more generally, under the GATS: /content/files/english/res_e/reser_e/ersd200608_e.pdf .  It's by Mireille Cossy of the WTO's Trade in Services division.  I felt like she

Christoph Herrmann of EUI asks the following question: One question that puzzles me already for quite some time is the "naming" of the EC in the WTO framework. E.g. dispute settlement reports consistently refer to the "European Communities", however, in singular. Well, technically, this is

Jalal Alavi, PhD Candidate at the University of Neuchatel, writes the following: The EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson has urged the EU ministers yesterday to boost trade and development aid, as promised, to help him conclude market-opening deals with 78 countries in the ACP region. He further asked EU to

Statoil has recently settled with the U.S. SEC regarding its bribery of Iranian officials in order to secure lucrative oil and gas rights in Iran.  So, one might ask, why would a Norwegian company making a bribe in Iran have to deal with the SEC?  The U.S. Foreign