What is “International Economic Law?”  Like many contributors to this blog, I have pronounced myself as someone who works in this area but I am a little embarrassed when my colleagues ask me to explain the big problems or major issues in the field.  Especially when they ask “what is

Daniel Kono, a political scientist at UC Davis, has an interesting article in the latest issue (100:3) of the American Political Science Review (APSR), entitled "Optimal Obfuscation: Democracy and Trade Policy Transparency" (the modest abstract follows below; the full article is available here for APSA Members and

Somebody call a lawyer. I just read that Joseph Stiglitz, in an article in the bepress.com "Economist's Voice" publication (thanks to Dan Drezner for mentioning this to me), has argued that Japan, Europe and other signatories of the Kyoto Protocol should bring a WTO case

Clay Risen writes in the current issue of The New Republic as follows: “The most significant challenge [to the liberal economic order, and to U.S. power], arising from the slow collapse of the Doha trade negotiations, is Venezuela's plan to replace the international trade structure with a

I must admit that I was disheartened as I opened the GMO panel report, and my pdf reader told me that it was 2400 pages.  It took a while to open.  The problem is not (just) the challenge to my laziness, but the fact that many of us who might

As mentioned in an earlier post, we have arranged with Anna-Emilia Autio (anna.autio@gmail.com) and Petko Kantchevski (kantche4@hei.unige.ch) to report on the panel meetings in the Hormones Sanctions cases (DS320 and DS321).  Due to the length of the meetings, it probably doesn't

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&