No, my previous post wasn't intened as a rhetorical question.  Simply inexperience at using Typepad.  What I meant to post was: Many recent posts, and much media commentary, have tried to identify the implications of the current impasse in negotiations. There is a rough consensus that failure of

It is a pleasure to welcome two more colleagues to the blog.  Andrew Guzman, professor at Boalt Hall School of Law, is an astute commentator on international regulatory issues, public international law, and international trade law.  In addition to his legal credentials, he holds a doctorate in economics.  Junji Nakagawa

I've heard a number of people suggest that the Doha failure would lead to an increase in WTO complaints relating to agricultural subsidies.  The theory is that Members were hoping to address their concerns through negotiations, but now dispute settlement is the only option.  It seems that we

In more peaceful days (just a month ago, in fact), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem hosted a roundtable on the EC-Biotech case. Participants were Rob Howse, Mary Footer, Gareth Davies,Oren Perez, Christiane Conrad and myself. It's a bit odd to publish commentary on a Panel Report

On July 24, 2006, Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), declared de facto dead the troubled Doha round trade talks which has been conducted since 2001. This news sounds so disappointing in that WTO Members failed to deliver what they have already prepared, and in a

A couple of Danish researchers have constructed a methodology for evaluating states' preferences for liberalization, and the degree of difference in their positions.  Their conclusion:  the EU is more at fault for the breakdown of Doha negotiations than the U.S.  I didn't read the paper or

Rob Howse is away and asked me to post this for him: David Unterhalter, new Appellate Body Member David Unterhalter, a South African practitioner and law professor, (at Wits), has just been appointed to the Appellate Body to fill the spot left vacant by the untimely death of AB Member

Apparently, the term blowback was coined in a CIA report on its efforts to overthrow the Mossadegh government in Iran. In that report, and since, the term has come to refer to the unintended consequences of government policy. More recently it has been applied to describe the effect of decisions