The final panel report on the EU-Biotech dispute has just been released. http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news06_e/291r_e.htm    I found this report politically savvy but legally ambivalent. First, a moratorium, whether de facto or de jure, is a "ban" or a

Those interested in how WTO law interacts with the rest of international law may know that in 2002 the UN International Law Commission (ILC) set up a Study Group to examine the “fragmentation” of international law.  Well, the final report and conclusions of this Study Group are now published.  In

Here is a call for papers from the Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy (which is part of the Asian Center for WTO & International Health Law and Policy, National Taiwan University): http://www.law.ntu.edu.tw/center/wto/05publications.asp?tb_index=40 It&

Congratulations to Ralf Michaels on a very interesting paper examining the relationship between traditional private international law principles and the principle of recognition in European Union law.  Here is the abstract: EU Law as Private International Law? Re-Conceptualising the Country-of-Origin Principle as Vested Rights Theory RALF MICHAELS

Today's FT has an editorial complaining about the extraterritorial inspections of Ernst & Young (in London) carried out recently by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board under Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX).  The FT's point is that this work is duplicative of UK inspection, and imposes additional (and

The current WTO panel proceedings in the Hormones Sanctions cases (DS320 and DS321) are noteworthy not just for the interesting issues under the SPS Agreement and the DSU, but also because this panel was the first to open its meetings with the parties to the public.  This took place in

Reuters is reporting on what they refer to as a "UN study" that argues "[t]he world needs clearer rules to judge when trade curbs on environmental or health grounds are justified or are simply protectionist."  It also "urged governments to work out a common

Here is a notice regarding the recently published papers from one of the "WTO at 10 conferences: The WTO at Ten: The Contribution of the Dispute Settlement System", edited by Giorgio Sacerdoti, Alan Yanovich, and Jan Bohanes, assesses the first ten years of the World Trade Organization.  It