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Sanders and Warren Talk Trade with the NY Times

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren both talked to the NY Times editorial board recently, and trade was one of the issues raised (a tiny bit with Sanders, a lot with Warren). This is from the interview with Sanders: AK: I’m wondering if you could explain how your approach to

9th Conference of the Postgraduate and Early Professionals/Academics Network of the Society of International Economic Law (PEPA/SIEL) 2020 Jerusalem, 17-19 May 2020

The conference is organised by the Postgraduate and Early Professionals/Academics Network of the Society of International Economic Law (PEPA/SIEL) in collaboration with the International Law Forum and other sponsors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. SIEL’s Postgraduate and Early Professionals/Academics Network (PEPA/SIEL) is, among other

DO APPELLATE BODY MEMBERS HAVE BIASES WHEN CHOOSING A CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS TO CLARIFY UNDEFINED RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS?

The state of Washington has sworn in its first Native American Supreme Court justice, Raquel Montoya-Lewis. At a press conference announcing her appointment, a reporter asked Montoya-Lewis, “What do you see as the biggest problem with implicit bias in the courts right now?” She replied: The biggest hurdle is getting

Another Economic Defense for the Multilateral Trading System

Stephen Roach (Yale) has recently published a must-read (“US, China and the Myth of Global Decoupling”), which refutes the logic of trade wars. Here are main observations. Today’s global economy is far more integrated than ever before. (…) The tighter that trade is woven into the fabric of global commerce,

Slaying Concerns about the WTO’s Faceless Bureaucrats

This is a guest post by Philippe de Baere, Henry Gao, Todd Friedbacher, Iain Sandford, Nicolas Lockhart, Isabelle Van Damme, Tania Voon, Alan Yanovich[1] Ever since countries first agreed rules to regulate international trade, they have disagreed about what the rules mean. International trade disputes raise sensitive political and

Senator Toomey on the USMCA Sunset Clause

This is from the Q & A at a recent AEI event with Senator Pat Toomey, hosted by Derek Scissors: Derek Scissors: ... Let’s not talk about what we agree on. Let’s talk about what we might disagree on, or at least disagree partly on. And I’ll start

Does Hiring Strikebreakers Violate the USMCA?

This is from Lance Compa of Cornell Law School: ... a more than two-months-long strike provoked by a multibillionaire Mexican business tycoon has cast a cloud over the new trade pact’s provisions to strengthen workers’ rights. Citing management’s bad-faith bargaining, nearly 2,000 workers have walked picket lines since

The Scorecard of the USMCA Protocol of Amendment

This post is by law professors David Gantz and Sergio Puig Introduction The U.S. House of Representatives approved December 19 the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) by an overwhelming margin of 385-41. The Senate is expected to do the same in mid-January. As everyone knows by now, USMCA is a

Guest Post: Japan–South Korea Trade Friction

This is a guest post from law professor Bashar H. Malkawi: Japan imposed tighter export control measures on chemicals used by South Korean companies to produce semiconductors and smart phones and TV displays. In addition, Japan removed South Korea from a "white list" of twenty-seven preferential trading partners

The Resurrection of the Appellate Body: Three Proposals

The Appellate Body is dead. But not all hope is lost. Instead, we could still bring it back, and there are at least three different ways: 1. The first is launching the Appellate Body appointment process by forcing a vote through the General Council as per Article IX.1 of