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

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

Hearty welcome to our excellent new bloggers:  Don Regan of Michigan and Francis Snyder of LSE.

As I recall Joost's excavation of the gems in EC-Biotech may not have included the panel's analysis of Art. III:4 of the GATT, National Treatment.  As I understand it, fleshing out the meaning of what the AB said about "treatment no less favorable&

Thank you, Joel, for letting me join the discussion of Mexico – Soft Drinks.  It seems to me that if one simply picks up XX(d) and reads it as a piece of natural language, taking it all together and attending to the illustrative examples, the picture one gets is of

In a post on opinio juris, Bill Dodge writes as follows: In an article about to be published, I analyze the different approaches of NAFTA (which allows direct investor claims) and AUSFTA (which does not) and suggest a third approach. Specifically, I argue that because developed countries have developed legal

I am very pleased to welcome Lorand Bartels, of University of Edinburgh School of Law, to our group of contributors.  I look forward to his insightful contributions.

I was just reading the Leiter gossip about law professor moves (yes, I really do have better things to do), and read that Greg Shaffer has been appointed to be the first holder of the Wing Tat Lee Chair in International Law at Loyola Chicago.  Congratulations.