Well, something is happening at Davos.  There has been more discussion of the Doha agenda, and suggestions by Peter Mendelson that the developing countries will need to make some non-agricultural market access concessions in order to allow him to sell further agricultural liberalizatoin to Europe. But I have wondered whether

Well, this blog is about international economic law, so I am a bit conflicted about mentioning this.  On the other hand, it is a good international law story, and the arguments regarding the President's authority in the U.S. have important implications for U.S. foreign relations law

For years, my question to advocates of corporate social responsibility was "why should corporations be treated differently from other citizens."  In the international context, the question was "why should foreign corporations be treated differently from local corporations?"  "Why impose supra-standard regulation on firms, just because

In two recent statements, Judge Richard Posner, one of the fathers of law and economics, has seemed to reject the "rule of law."  See the Jeffrey Toobin piece in The New Yorker, commenting on Posner's recent piece in the Harvard Law Review: Of the 2004-05 Supreme

AFP reports that a U.S. official has said that the GMO report will arrive next Wednesday.  But in keeping with Beckett's work, it will not really arrive.  Rather, it will be an interim report that will be distributed to the parties, with the results immediately leaked.  So,

The FT reported yesterday that the U.S. is asking for more information about Chinese enforcement, including criminal enforcement, and penalties, for intellectual property infringement.  The U.S. is threatening WTO litigation for non-compliance with this request.  The U.S. made its request under Art. 63.3 of TRIPS.  Here

Jose Bove is advocating use of the WTO DSB by African states to attack the EU's agricultural policies. "African government leaders and heads of state have to attack the European Union in the tribunal of the World Trade Organization for the distortion and destruction of their local

It seems as though Davos is to host a mini-ministerial in parallel to the World Economic Forum.  See the story.  USTR Portman is playing the Fast Track card, and saying that the ball is in the EU court.

The New Republic has a story about Wolfowitz' confrontation with the government of Chad: "WHY LIBERALS SHOULD BE APPLAUDING WOLFOWITZ.Bank Statement by Jai Singh    Only at TNR Online | Post date 01.24.06 It's not front-page news, but Paul Wolfowitz is taking on a dictator

This from today's Wall St. Journal: "EU Executive Arm Endorses Labels On 'Humane' Food By MARY JACOBY Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL January 24, 2006; Page A19 BRUSSELS – A special label should be applied to poultry, beef, pork and fish produced by "