Law Roundtable

With Simon's permission, I wanted to let you know about two calls for candidates we have in Geneva:

1. A 50% job, to help me run and supervise the Trade & Investment Law Clinic at the Graduate Institute, and to set up a new, related internet ...

Arizona State University asked me to post this:

The Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law seeks a dynamic, proactive, and highly-motivated individual for the position of Director of the Center for Law and Global Affairs. The Director will report to the Dean of the College and will work daily under the ...

I've done several posts related to the Canada - Renewable Energy AB reasoning on "benefit."  As I noted, there is some uncertainty as to the potential scope of the ruling.  How much leeway do governments now have to provide finanical contributions in a way that "creates a market" without leading ...

The Washington Post has an excellent article on the WTO Tuna-Dolphin dispute, stripped of legal jargon and very informative. An excerpt:

There is no sure way to catch tuna without harming other marine life. Dolphins, as well as sharks, turtles and other animals, are unintentionally killed as bycatch in the ...

The WSJ has a strange article on Roberto Azevedo's selection as DG.  It starts:

A depressing rule of international institutions is that whatever their founding intentions they inevitably evolve to serve themselves or their worst members more than their original cause. The latest example is the World Trade Organization, which ...

For those of you who want to hear more about the EU case related to the seal products ban, Laurens Ankersmit has the details at the European Law Blog.  Here's an excerpt:

In a second round of cases in Luxembourg, a number of seal hunters failed (yet again) to convince ...

My friend Luke Peterson, who publishes the always informative and insightful Investment Arbitration Reporter, is looking for some additional contributors:

Investment Arbitration Reporter is currently expanding our small team of specialized journalists and analysts.

Our contributors are located in different geographic locations, and are self-motivated individuals with strong English language writing skills. ...

Here's more from the AB reasoning in Renewable Energy/Feed-In Tariffs:

5.174. In the present disputes, supply-side factors suggest that windpower and solar PV producers of electricity cannot compete with other electricity producers because of differences in cost structures and operating costs and characteristics. Windpower and solar PV technologies have ...

I'll be blogging more in the coming days about the exciting possibilities opened up by Roberto Azevedo's ascent to the leadership of the WTO.  This doesn't mean that I have forgotten the procedural corruption that led to the elimination of the African candidates in the first round.  Azevedo saved the ...

THE ACADEMY OF INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT AND TRADE LAW 2013

Macau Cultural Centre

8th – 18th July 2013

Objectives:

The Academy of International Investment and Trade Law, based in Macau and organized by the Institute of European Studies of Macau since, aims at providing education and training at the highest international standard on the law of international trade, the WTO ...