This is a guest post from Jingyuan "Joey" Zhou, Professor of Practice at University of Arizona Law School The COVID-19 has become a pandemic and more and more governments worldwide are struggling to contain the virus so as to protect their citizens.  Commentators have inter alia recommended policies

Dear Ulli, On a slightly more optimistic note than your post of yesterday (and realizing that with corona, other, more important issues are on people's minds), I think you are unnecessarily equating “independent third-party adjudication” with the specific incarnation that the Appellate Body has taken after 25 years

The following is a notice from SIEL: To the SIEL Community: In light of the evolving situation regarding the COVID-19 crisis, the SIEL Executive Council has decided to postpone the 2020 SIEL Conference, which was schedule to take place in July 2020 at Bocconi University in Milan. We have not

This is a guest post from Prof. Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, European University Institute Florence Humanity knows from Greek mythology and from the Bible that third-party adjudication emerged and developed in response to never-ending human tragedies (like the pursuit of Orest by the goddesses of revenge punishing Orest’s murder of his

By Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp Narratives provide the storylines through which people make sense of the world. Actors strategically deploy narratives to advance agendas, telling stories about what or who is to blame and what should be done. When it comes to the coronavirus, multiple narratives are emerging. Instead

With Trump complaining about the WTO treating the U.S. unfairly, I get asked now and then about U.S. "wins" and "losses" in WTO disputes. How does the U.S. fare as a complainant and as a respondent? It's a difficult question. A