The Trump Administration's Shameful Attack on Appellator Zhao 5 March 2020 Steve Charnovitz On 5 February 2020, I posted a paper, <https://ielp.worldtradelaw.net/2020/02/the-illegitimate-ab-report-in-russia-railway-equipment-.html>, explaining why the Appellate Body's February 3 decision in Russia - Railway Equipment is illegitimate.

Tom Graham was talking about the Appellate Body at a Georgetown law conference today. I wish I had the full text of his speech, but all I have for now is the Inside US Trade summary, and I'll have to make do with that: Graham identified four steps

This is a guest post from Jingyuan "Joey" Zhou, Professor of Practice at University of Arizona Law School Introduction As exemplified by COVID-19,[i] a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)[ii] incidence and past PHEIC incidences like H1N1, Ebola, and MERS, governments take significant actions based

In the last post, I said that going through USTR's 2020 Trade Policy Agenda and 2019 Annual Report page by page and responding to every point "would be exhausting and would probably not achieve much." But I'm going to do a little bit of

USTR's 2020 Trade Policy Agenda and 2019 Annual Report was released today. Among other things, it includes a lot of complaints about the WTO, and clearly reflects the trade views of the Trump administration. There's a part of me that would like to go through page

This is a guest post from Prof. Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, European University Institute Florence In his recent book on Globalists. The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (Harvard University Press 2018), history Professor Q. Slobodian describes the WTO as ‘the paradigmatic product of Geneva School neoliberalism’ (at p.25)

I was struck by two particular passages in the USTR Report on the Appellate Body, and wonder whether they signal the USTR’s intention about the future of the WTO Dispute Settlement system. The first is paragraph 3 of the Introduction: On a more fundamental level, this [AB] overreaching also