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

Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank were awarded the Nobel peace Prize yesterday, for their efforts in developing the practice of micro-credit in Bangladesh for the benefit of the extreme poor, mainly women. Micro-finance is not perfect, but it is a great idea that generally works for the poor.

The other day Joel posted about the suggestion by Joseph Stiglitz that the EU should impose trade barriers on the U.S. to coerce a change in U.S. environmental policy.  Now I see that Jonathan Adler, over at the Volokh Conspiracy, has posted about a similar proposal: [according to

The full program of the ASIL International Economic Law Interest Group, November 9th-12th, at the historic Mt. Washington Resort at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, is now online. This year the conference theme is "IEL: the state and future of the discipline", and it is organized around three

It's a great pleasure to welcome Michael Ewing-Chow, one of the leading lights of the National University of Singapore Law Faculty, and Bryan Mercurio, an insightful trade law and policy analyst from University of New South Wales, as contributors to our blog.