Last week, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group III (WGIII) turned squarely to designing permanent adjudicative institutions for the resolution of investment disputes. As readers of this blog may be aware, WGIII is charged with developing multilateral reforms to the current ad hoc system of

I wish the trade wars would slow down a bit so I could do more reflective thinking about big picture issues, rather than constantly monitoring twitter for the latest trade emergency. That doesn't look it will happen any time soon, but I was able to fit in a

The law journal Legal Issues of Economic Integration will be holding a conference to assess the changing role of institutions in economic integration, including proposed, contested and new institutions in bilateral, regional and global settings. The conference will take place at the Amsterdam Law School on 8 May 2020.  Proposals

The Uniqueness of WTO Court Elections as Compared to other Multilateral Courts Alexandra Dobre* and Steve Charnovitz The process and structure of multilateral court elections differ across courts in criteria such as judges’ term lengths, nomination and appointment procedures, possibility for reappointment, desired qualifications, and more. In analyzing the International

This is an announcement by the joint organizers of the International Investment Law & State Capitalism Colloquium from Athens PIL; the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) at Tilburg University (the Netherlands); and Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) College of Law (Qatar): The Athens Public International Law Center (Athens PIL)

Having had the text of the U.S. - China "Phase One" trade deal for almost 48 hours, I have so many questions. Here are a few of them: 1. What exactly did China agree to? There are a lot of obligations in here, and many of them

As I've mentioned a couple times already (sorry, but this intrigues me!), the U.S. filed a notification of appeal in relation to the DS436 Article 21.5 panel report. The U.S. notification said this: the United States hereby notifies the Dispute Settlement Body of its decision

As I first talked about here, it appears that the Trump administration has convinced China to sign on to a new kind of "unilateral" dispute resolution process as part of the the Economic and Trade Agreement between the U.S. and China, which was released today. Here'