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 2007 – ISUFI,

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

Three new papers by Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann have just been posted at SSRN, and all look quite interesting.  They are as follows: 1. Multi-Level Judicial Trade Governance without Justice? On the Role of Domestic Courts in the WTO Legal and Dispute Settlement System 2. Justice in International Economic Law?

In any potential legal case against the Chinese Yuan, the measure of its alleged undervaluation is critical because of the necessary demonstration of the benefit criterion in a subsidy context. Moreover, in a CVD context, the countervailing duty must not be superior to the benefit inherent in the subsidy. In