On March 23, Pascal made the following statement: It is a pleasure to be here with you today to discuss the progress that the WTO is making in completing the Doha Round. As you know, the end date for the Round is soon approaching — it is the end of this

From Opinio Juris--IELPB Bloggers and Readers are InvitedOpinio Juris Reception at the ASIL Annual Meetingby Chris BorgenFor those of you who will be at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law (or just in DC), Opinio Juris and the ASIL will sponsor a reception on Thursday evening,

THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAWREVOLUTION & THE RIGHT TO REGULATEbyJoel P. Trachtman ISBN: 1 905017 20 0 • Hardback • £125.00/US$238.00One of the most important issues facing international lawyers today is the relationship between international legal rules and domestic autonomy. This relationship is at the centre of the debate

I have just been reading the Art 21.3(c) arbitral award in EC – Chicken Classification (WT/DS269/13, 20 February 2006), which, in its robust attitude to EC law, provides an interesting counterpoint to the AB’s more deferential attitude to NAFTA in Soft Drinks. The EC argued that

The Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank has released a study of the Bank's advice on trade.  Part of the executive summary (pp xiv-xv) is worth quoting in full: Bank clients that obtained loans to support trade reform experienced higher economic growth rates in the medium term

I suppose that I am an idealist, as I still find it surprising that Senators Charles Schumer and Lindsay Graham can be taken seriously as they threaten China with a 27.5% tariff on imports unless China revalues the renminbi.  Why doesn't China simply say, well you know,

I have been struggling over a paper on distributive justice and international law, for a conference April 7 at Cornell.  This seems an example of failure of comparative advantage (why should I try to learn philosophy?), but it also occurs to me that the distributive justice issues cannot be answered

I thought this write-up by Jawad Anani in Beirut's Al-Hayat was interesting, giving a view that is external to US politics: http://english.daralhayat.com/business/03-2006/Article-20060316-03ace06f-c0a8-10ed-0008-254d564638e0/story.html The bottom line: "Under these circumstances, "Dubai Ports" put forth many proposals to entrust the

It is with great pleasure that I welcome Peter Van den Bossche, of Maastricht, to our group of contributors.

Uruguay seems to have followed the four West African cotton producers in demanding cash compensation from the U.S. for the reduction in incomes of Uruguayan rice farmers due to U.S. rice subsidies.  The March 10 Inside U.S. Trade reports that the U.S. is considering how to