This is from Dr. Michael J. Strauss, Professor of international relations and international law, Centre d'Etudes Diplomatiques et Stratégiques (Paris), Instructor in international economic law, Université de Paris 5 - Paris Descartes, and Academic advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on

Here are the details for a webinar presented by the Centre of European Law, King’s College London & George Washington University Law School (register here): Webinar – Towards a European Economic Sovereignty? Some reflections on the Commission White Paper on Foreign Subsidies - 1 December 2020 The European Commission is concerned

If we need any reminder that the Brexit transition period is drawing to a close, and of the implications for UK/EU trade, then two public notices issued over the past few months should do the trick. These notices, one by the UK and the other by the EU Commission,

I guess I must be the only lawyer on either side of the Atlantic that missed two pending US countervail cases involving the EU's Emission Trading Scheme. The investigations, involving Forged Steel Fluid End Blocks from Italy and Germany, include allegations that the free emission allowances given to

We’re all looking at RCEP now. One really interesting angle is to compare the RCEP text to that of the CPTPP, its competitor. On the one hand, in many areas the text of RCEP is not only similar, but is in fact identical, to that of CPTPP. At the

There has been lots of talk about RCEP these past few days. For Asian trade issues, I always listen closely to what Deborah Elms has to say. She just did an episode of the Trade Talks Podcast on RCEP, and I wanted to highlight three things she said there. First,

The RCEP legal text has just been released. I don't have a sense at this point of how much liberalization is involved in this agreement, but skimming through the various chapters, I found a number of tidbits worth noting. 1. There's an interesting "general review&

The Biden-Harris transition team just posted agency review teams here. They describe these teams as follows: Agency review teams are responsible for understanding the operations of each agency, ensuring a smooth transfer of power, and preparing for President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris and their cabinet to