This from Mark Stratman, at the suggestion of John Jackson: The WTO General Council has made a decision to derestrict all GATT 1947 documents.  This is an important step towards greater transparency, and greatly reduces some of the confusion about what documents might still be restricted from the GATT days.

Still ploughing on with Biotech! I am struck today by the panel's (excessively) cautious approach to the interpretation of the special and differential treatment obligation in Article 10.1 of the SPS Agreement. The panel concluded that while Members must take the interests of developing countries into account

The well known British jornalist and political commentator, Martin Jacques, has a piece in today's GUARDIAN called 'The death of Doha Signals the Demise of Globalisation'.  He concludes that the deadlock in Doha is final and that it suggests not so much the end of globalisation

This was posted by Roger Alford on Opinio Juris: Buxbaum on Transnational Regulatory Litigationby Roger AlfordHannah Buxbaum has just posted on SSRN an interesting article on "Transnational Regulatory Litigation." You can download the document here. In particular she includes an illuminating section on global class actions. Here is

A guest blog from Lan Yuo: On 3 July, the Council issued the finalised text of a Regulation imposing a definitive anti-dumping duty on potassium chloride from Belarus and Russia. (/content/files/en/06/st10/st10609-en06.pdf) Generally speaking, it is not a high profile (i.e. economically

Like many of us, much of my summer is devoted to reading EC - Biotech! Today's chunk made me think again about the concept of an SPS measure. As many will know, the panel decided that the EC's de facto moratorium is not an SPS measure. It

As part of the normal course of my professional life, I find myself attending social functions in elegant venues, in some of the world's great cities.  In the past year, the cities have included Prague, Brussels, London, DC and Montreal.  I mention these cities not to impress (as