See the USTR report that is the basis for Susan Schwab's recent criticisms of China's trade policy.

The Economist has an excellent article this week about food politics.  What I liked about it was that it brings the technical legal issues from the GMOs and other similar cases into a real world context.  Much of the debate in trade law circles involves government regulation, as well as

In a case about to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, Credit Suisse v. Billing, an issue of conflict between regulatory regimes will be addressed.  The two regimes are the U.S. antitrust laws and the U.S. securities laws.  The type of conflict is that the U.

See the cool post by Roger Alford at Opinio Juris.  It'll make your head spin.

Yesterday I happened to hear a lecture about the "Protection of family property against creditors in the enlightenment era court of chancery". Nothing to do with GMOs, but listening to a learned analysis of late 18th century jurisprudence made me wonder - what would future generations, say, in 250

In its recent post on  Posner and the Rule of WTO Law,  Simon Lester underlines that the “mere mention of "policy preferences" seems to set people in the WTO on edge. This stems from a  fact long ago underlined by Hudec that WTO  activity intrudes upon domestic regulatory

In an early post on this blog, Joel cited some articles by and about Judge Richard Posner, and noted that while Posner accepts that there are limits, he refuses to accept a clear line between interpretation and policy-making.  This line is, if not the definition of the "rule

Hold your breath.The EU is putting trade policy to public task: http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/04/business/trade.php . Is this like putting liberalization to public referendum? If the outcome is negative, could it justify trade restrictions? If it is positive, could it justify openness? One

" Interactions between Investment and Non-Investment Obligations in International Investment Law " by my Hebrew University Colleague Prof. Moshe Hirsch is a systematized analysis of investment tribunals' treatment - perhaps the first - of the overlap between investment law and other areas of international obligation. It's available at

This paper came across on SSRN, and looks interesting, both in terms of the subject it describes, and the method by which it evaluates the benefits of this convention. "Innovation in International Law and Global Finance: Estimating the Financial Impact of the Cape Town Convention" Author: ANTHONY SAUNDERS