Reportedly, the NAFTA Chapter 11 claims filed by Canadian softwood lumber exporters have been dismissed by the tribunal at a preliminary stage following jurisdictional arguments based on Article 1901(3) NAFTA which reads: "Except for Article 2203 (Entry into Force), no provision of any other Chapter of this Agreement

As the world's most exciting sports event begins, I was hoping to conjure up a link to IEL.  How about this.  National teams are limited to nationals.  The team administrators obviously discriminate in the national treatment sense against foreign players.  Would this violate a GATS commitment in the

Airbus has filed a motion to enjoin Wilmer Hale and Marco Bronckers from representing Boeing, in light of Bronckers' earlier work for Airbus.    Interestingly, the basis for Airbus' claim is the Washington DC Rules of Professional Conduct, which I suppose are being applied to the Wilmer Hale firm.

See the open letter  on immigration reform from economists and other social scientists at Marginal Revolution.  There is still a debate on the national welfare effects of increased immigration, based on empirical work by Borjas versus that by Card.  On the other hand, in at least some respects, from a

On May 23-24, 2006, the Sixth Annual WTO Conference was held in London, organized by the Institute of International Economic Law (in Georgetown Law Center) and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. Many interesting, and pressing, issues, ranging from judicial economy to treaty interpretation to regulatory convergence to

On May 23, 2006 an interesting workshop was held at East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School to discuss China’s recent effort to enact an Anti-Monopoly Law. Despite some predicaments (such as an internal bureaucratic battle over the jurisdiction), some predict that the Law may be passed some time

Another investment banker.  News reports have Robert Zoellick leaving the State Department for Merrill Lynch.  I was disappointed when he left USTR, but recognized that State had bigger fish to fry.  Forgive my venting, and apologies to my friends in investment banking, but it is painful to watch one of

The U.S., in a document delivered to the WTO on May 9, cites our humble blog.  You can't buy this kind of publicity.  Of course, the U.S. cites the blog to underscore that even those (Sungjoon Cho) who don't like zeroing believe the decision

In an unusually law-intensive and wonderfully bilingual speech (evidencing a great command of the WTO jurisprudence) given at an ESIL meeting at the Sorbonne, Pascal Lamy  made the following comments The lack of coherence of our international legal system is amplified by the relative power of the WTO and in

In its Archer Daniels Midland decision yesterday, C-397/03 P,on appeal from the Court of First Instance, the ECJ decided that there is no obligation on regulators to avoid "double-fining": 50     Next, referring to paragraph 11 of Wilhelm and Others, the Court of First Instance held in