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.
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Recent Posts from International Economic Law and Policy
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"New Directions" in U.S. Trade Policy
Some Democrats (127 in the House) are urging a "new direction" for U.S. trade policy. For instance: H.R. 3012, TRADE Act ... The bill spells out what should be in trade agreements including standards on:…
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Jagdish Bhagwati, Trade Agreement Skeptic?
Via Todd Tucker at Eyes on Trade, I came across a Reason magazine interview with Jagdish Bhagwati. The whole piece is interesting, but I'm going to focus on this one part: reason: Was NAFTA a…
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Today's DSB Meeting
A quick run-down, with links: -- Panel requested by Canada and Mexico on U.S. country of origin labeling (DS384 and 386): established. -- Panel requested by the U.S. on EC restrictions on poultry imports (DS389):…
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Eligibility Criteria for U.S. Trade Preference Programs
From a statement by USTR General Counsel Tim Reif to the House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade, related to the eligibility criteria for U.S. trade preference programs: First, the criteria were intended…
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Concurrent AD/CVD Investigations by DOC in the NME Context
Yes, I know, that's a lot of acronyms in the post title! Those who read my previous post on this topic may have noticed that I buried the NME issues towards the end. You may…
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Old Hawaiian Case Applying GATT (Articles III and XX) Law
I've often seen references to the 1957 Hawaiian court case Territory v. Ho, in which a Hawaiian law requiring those selling foreign eggs to display a "WE SELL FOREIGN EGGS" sign was struck down as…
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More Krugman on China's Currency Value
I'm beginning to think that Paul Krugman is the only one more obsessed with the Chinese currency value issue than I am (not that I agree with all of his views of the issue, but…
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The Burley Tobacco Producers Make Their Case
From an op-ed by the president of the Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association, in The Hill: Less than a month after Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited Washington to lecture President Obama about the dangers of…
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Staiger and Sykes on Trade Agreements and Domestic Regulation
Robert Staiger and Alan Sykes have posted "International Trade and Domestic Regulation" on SSRN. From the abstract: Employing the terms-of-trade framework for the modeling of trade agreements, we show how "large" nations may have an…
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IEL Lectureship at University of Edinburgh
Here: Applications are invited for a Lectureship (UE08) in the School of Law from candidates with research interests in either or both of international commercial arbitration and international trade law. Applications would also be welcome…