International Economic Law And Policy

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Author: Simon Lester co-owns WorldTradeLaw.net; Joel Trachtman is a law professor at Tufts University; Mark Benitah is a law professor at the University of Quebec, in Canada; Steve Charnovitz is an associate professor of law at the George Washington University Law School; Sungjoon Cho is an assistant professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law; Henry Gao is an assistant law professor at the University of Hong Kong; and Bryan Mercurio is a senior lecturer on the law faculty of the University of New South Wales in Sydney.

Recent Posts from International Economic Law and Policy

The Tuna-Dolphin Case: The NAFTA-WTO Conflict Heats Up
From a USTR press release: The Office of the United States Trade Representative announced today that the United States has requested North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) dispute settlement consultations with Mexico regarding Mexico's failure…
Clean Energy Competition
When I read about proposals to reduce tariffs on environmental goods and services, my sense is that, assuming trade negotiators can agree on anything these days, this should be a goal that is achievable. On…
Are Exchange Rate Rules Coming to the WTO?
Economist Simon Johnson writes the following at the NY Times Economix blog: But the mainstream consensus is starting to shift toward the idea that the World Trade Organization (W.T.O.), not the I.M.F., should have jurisdiction…
More on Trade and Internet Censorship
Brian Hindley and Hosuk Lee-Makiyama have published a working paper on "Protectionism Online: Internet Censorship and International Trade Law." From the abstract: This paper suggests that many WTO member states are legally obliged to permit…
The Seal Products WTO Consultations Request
... is here. It doesn't do much except identify the measure and the legal provisions. The provisions at issue are: TBT Agreement Articles 2.1 and 2.2; GATT Articles I:1, III:4 and XI:1; and Agriculture Agreement…
Beyond the ACWL: Trade Law Enforcement for Developing Countries
I've been skimming through Chad Bown's new book "Self-Enforcing Trade: Developing Countries and WTO Dispute Settlement." One of his key points is that the Advisory Centre on WTO Law (ACWL) is great at its core…
UNCTAD Trade Division Director
Yet another interesting trade job: Director, Division on International Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities, D-2 DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 29 Dec 2009 DATE OF ISSUANCE: 30 Oct 2009 ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT: United Nations Conference on…
More on the AD/CVD Overlap
I promised a litte while ago that I would offer a bit of substance on the issue of concurrent AD/CVD investigations and "double remedies." It's a complicated issue, so anyone working on these cases who…
IEL Teaching Fellow Position at Stanford
Lots of good jobs to post about these days. Here's another: The Teaching Fellow in international economic law, business and policy will work with candidates in the LLM specialization in IELBP. The fellow will assume…
Will USTR Go To Bat For Big Tobacco?
From the AP: Tobacco advocates are seething over a new Canadian law they claim will snuff out sales of cigarettes packed with U.S. burley, and they are fighting back to protect their export sales. They…