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Economic Sanctions, Nuclear Proliferation and Regional Stability: Whither Iran & the Biden Administration?

From its earliest days, restoring the Iran nuclear deal has been a priority of the Biden Administration. A signal foreign policy accomplishment of former US President Barack Obama, the deal involved Iran agreeing to concrete verifiable steps to constrain those aspects of its nuclear energy program feared by the West

Entries for the 2022 Hart SIEL-HART Prize in International Economic Law open in September 2021

This is from Hart and SIEL: ABOUT THE PRIZE The SIEL–Hart Prize is awarded every 2 years to an outstanding unpublished manuscript by an early career scholar in the field of International Economic Law and is sponsored by the Society of International Economic Law and Hart Publishing. WHAT CAN

A Possible Fifth MPIA Case

I previously noted the four WTO disputes where agreed procedures between the parties for using the Multi-Party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement (MPIA) have been circulated (as well as an agreement to use Article 25 arbitration outside the context of the MPIA). There is now a fifth dispute, China - AD/

Guest Post: New Book on Climate Clubs and International Trade and Investment Law

This is a guest post from law professor Rafael Leal-Arcas Climate Clubs for a Sustainable Future: The role of international trade and investment law (Kluwer Law International, 2021), by Rafael Leal-Arcas (Queen Mary University of London). We know the science of climate change; we know the economics of

How Did the U.S. Set Tariffs When Unconstrained by Trade Agreements?

Here's an excerpt from a very interesting new paper by Doug Irwin and Anson Soderbery: What objective is a government trying to achieve in setting import tariffs? ... what factors would drive government behavior in the absence of such agreements when countries have complete autonomy in setting tariff rates?

Guest Post: New Book on Energy in International Trade Law

This is a guest post post from Anna Marhold, Assistant Professor at Leiden Law SchoolEnergy in International Trade Law: Concepts, Regulation and Changing Markets (Cambridge University Press 2021) by Anna Marhold (Leiden Law School) Against the backdrop of energy markets that have radically changed in recent decades, this book offers

Commerce Secretary Raimondo on Section 232 Steel and Aluminum Tariffs

If any doubts remained six months into the Biden Administration that the Administration would be any less protectionist or “Buy American” oriented than its predecessor, they were largely laid to rest by recent comments from Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo in an interview with Bloomberg News *[1] (reported in World Trade

New World Trade Review Written/Video Debate on Carbon Border Adjustments

Many of you know Mona Paulsen as the Queen of Trade Law Archival Research, but she is also a scholarly tech innovator, having convinced the stodgy folks at Cambridge University Press to do a video discussion for a World Trade Review written debate series on carbon border adjustments. In this

Guest Post: Will the EU CBAM Cover More Than What You Think? Complex Goods, System Boundaries, and Circumvention Under the Commission’s CBAM Proposal

This is a guest post from trade lawyers Cándido García Molyneux & Paul Mertenskötter: On July 14, the European Commission presented its legislative proposal for a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (“CBAM”). This long-anticipated tool is intended to make importers pay for the greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions embedded in the

The Battle of Ben & Jerry's-WTO Law as a New Front

One week ago, global ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's announced that the firm would no longer allow products to be sold under its brand in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OTP). Israel's continuing occupation of these territories is almost universally considered a violation of international law-