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

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

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

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

I've just had a look at the program for International Law Weekend--October 26-28, in NYC.  It looks like an interesting, and sometimes even edgy, event.  Lots of panels on international business law, and some interesting international economic law subjects as well.  And it's free