Blog, Blog, Blog
Remember "Bob Loblaw's Law Blog?" Well, there was a real world conference about blog scholarship last week at Harvard Law School. For blogs about it, see Ian Best's site.
The perfect exam question
Comes to us from Chicago, via Joseph Epstein in today's WSJ. The city of Chicago has banned foie gras. Epstein writes:
"A Chicago alderman named Joe Moore, who sponsored the ban on foie gras, after its passage declared that it sends "a powerful message that we
Different attitudes in European Courts to International Law
An appeal has been lodged in the Yusuf case (T-306/01), decided by the European Court of First Instance decided in September last year. The case is not about WTO Law, but is of interest to those following the EU/WTO direct effect saga before the European courts.
Yusuf concerns
"Soft in Wood and Head"
That is the title of the FT's editorial on the softwood lumber settlement. The FT concludes "In the end, the softwood sata shows the limits of international disputes procedures when the two parties are determined to ignore them and go on slugging it out." Was the
Peace in Our Time (Softwood Lumber)
Today's NYT reports a settlement of the U.S.-Canada lumber dispute. To say that this dispute has generated a lot of litigation is an understatement. And I suppose that the fact that the parties were willing to pay for all this litigation suggests that it had an
Are Reports of Doha's Death Premature?
It seems that the vultures are beginning to circle Doha. Given increasing economic arguments that the potential surpluses of a Doha deal (a lot depends on what that deal eventually is!) are not so large, and that only a small portion would be captured by the poor countries, I can&
Bretton Woods Redux and IMF Governance
There are two things going on at the IMF.
First, the IMF is turning its focus to global trade imbalances. This suggests a return to the original Bretton Woods vision of coordinated trade and monetary policy. See the Paul Bluestein story in the Washington Post. I wonder how the IMF&
A Farewell to Zeroing
On April 18, 2006, the Appellate Body (AB) released its decision on the U.S. "zeroing" dispute which the EU initiated. (UNITED STATES – LAWS, REGULATIONS AND METHODOLOGY FOR CALCULATING DUMPING MARGINS ("ZEROING"), WT/DS294/AB/R) http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/294abr_
Treaty-Making and Adjudication
SSRN includes a post of a new paper by Daniel Rodriquez and Barry Weingast. The abstract and reference are below. The idea is that interest group strategies to expand the scope of regulatory statutes through adjudicative action have backfired: they have made it difficult for legislators to agree on new
Food (Aid) for Thought
The debate on food aid in the agriculture talks is getting interesting beyond the substantive economic issue of the extent to which ostensibly benevolent food aid can/does cause "commercial displacement" in aid-recipient countries. It is becoming, in potentia, another interface between the WTO and non-WTO international organizations.