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

From Inside U.S. Trade: U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab said at a July 1 press conference ministers had failed to "find closure or even narrow the range" of differences on any aspects of how sensitive and special agriculture products should be designated and treated. "The

Today's FT reports that the WTO negotiations are bogged down.  Not a surprise, and it reinforces a kind of facile comparison to the Uruguay Round.  Oh yes, agricultural brinksmanship again.  The parties are playing chicken and the one with the most to lose will swerve at the last

Over at the Becker-Posner blog, Gary Becker says: it is obvious that the present system of farm subsidies in rich nations is a lightening rod for conflict in trade talks with third world countries, while they help their own farmers in highly inefficient ways. Here's the link