Renovating the International Architecture for Economic Growth and Social Justice Steve Charnovitz 6 August 2020 One of the enduring lessons of the past 150 years is the value added from international rules and transnational mimesis.  National (and subnational) governments are the primary providers of public regulation and public goods, but

It's one thing not to have ISDS in a U.S.-UK FTA, but what about in a U.S. FTA with Kenya? Investment in developing countries is what people who worry about risks associated with foreign investment seem to worry most about. This came up recently at

This is a question from Senator Grassley to U.S. Trade Rep. Lighthizer at the Senate Finance Committee Hearing on The President’s 2020 Trade Policy Agenda, from June 17, 2020: In the USMCA implementing bill, Congress provided USTR a significant increase in funding. We must continue to assess the

This is a guest post from law professor Geraldo Vidigal: I just had an exchange with Henry Gao on his post below and thought it could be useful to develop on the issue here. Gao argues that the WTO Ministerial Conference should move to appoint a WTO Director-General by majority

According to Reuters, the simple decision of appointing one of the DDGs as the Acting DG has run into impasse due to the insistence of the US to appoint Alan Wolff instead of Karl Brauner as most Members prefer. While seemingly surprising, I think this is the natural consequence of

A new panel report is out that addresses yet again the question of whether, and if so when, a Member can disregard “distorted” costs in determining normal value (and replace them with higher “undistorted” costs). EU-Cost Adjustment Methodologies, DS494. This issue has now been taken up in four WTO disputes,