Doha Delayed
It appears that the last gasp of hope for some kind of Doha deal this year has expired. It is curious that the G-8 expressed commitment last week, and then its ministers declined to deliver the goods in Geneva.
Shameless Self Promotion
I am happy to post the following announcement from Cambridge University Press:
The Limits of Leviathan
Contract Theory and the Enforcement of International Law
Robert E. Scott
Paul B. Stephan
Much of international law, like much of contract, is enforced not by
independent sanctions but rather through cooperative interaction
among
Derestriction of GATT 1947 Documents
This from Mark Stratman, at the suggestion of John Jackson:
The WTO General Council has made a decision to derestrict all GATT 1947 documents. This is an important step towards greater transparency, and greatly reduces some of the confusion about what documents might still be restricted from the GATT days.
Special and Differential Treatment in Biotech
Still ploughing on with Biotech! I am struck today by the panel's (excessively) cautious approach to the interpretation of the special and differential treatment obligation in Article 10.1 of the SPS Agreement. The panel concluded that while Members must take the interests of developing countries into account
The Death of Globalisation?
The well known British jornalist and political commentator, Martin Jacques, has a piece in today's GUARDIAN called 'The death of Doha Signals the Demise of Globalisation'. He concludes that the deadlock in Doha is final and that it suggests not so much the end of globalisation
The Gambling Dispute: Raising the Stakes
The Gambling compliance dispute is heating up on two fronts.
First, Antigua has now filed its panel request with the WTO. It expands slightly on its earlier consultations request, but is mostly the same.
Second, the U.S. House of Representatives is currently debating an internet gambling bill that will
Transnational litigation--from Opinio Juris from SSRN
This was posted by Roger Alford on Opinio Juris:
Buxbaum on Transnational Regulatory Litigationby Roger AlfordHannah Buxbaum has just posted on SSRN an interesting article on "Transnational Regulatory Litigation." You can download the document here. In particular she includes an illuminating section on global class actions. Here is
More on Sanchez-LLamas and Hamdan
I don't have much to add to Rosa's analysis of Sanchez-Llamas and Hamdan, but as an interested party (author of an amicus brief in Sanchez-Llamas) l will elaborate a bit on the general approach to the relationship between international and domestic law that these two decisions
Is “novel” EC AD measures WTO-consistent? --from Lan Yuo
A guest blog from Lan Yuo:
On 3 July, the Council issued the finalised text of a Regulation imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on potassium chloride from Belarus and Russia. (/content/files/en/06/st10/st10609-en06.pdf)
Generally speaking, it is not a high profile (i.e. economically or politically
What is an SPS measure?
Like many of us, much of my summer is devoted to reading EC - Biotech! Today's chunk made me think again about the concept of an SPS measure. As many will know, the panel decided that the EC's de facto moratorium is not an SPS measure.