International Economic Law and Policy

1. Guest Post: Commerce Department Regulations on “Connected” Vehicles: Potential Impacts on Chinese, Mexican, and other Automotive Imports to the United States

   This is a guest post from David A. Gantz, JD, JSM, Will Clayton Fellow for Trade and International Economics, Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public policy, Houston and Michelle Michot Foss, PhD, Fellow in Energy, Minerals and Materials, Baker Institute...

2. Guest Post: A Tribute to Frieder Roessler from Werner Zdouc

   This is a guest post by Werner Zdouc. The piece will be published in a forthcoming issue of the World Trade Review. A universalist, shaping destinies, staying true to himself Werner Zdouc Frieder Rössler was a principled pragmatist, who throughout...

3. Trade Balances and Trade Interventions and Trade Protectionism

   Last week, finance professor Michael Pettis spoke at an event about a new paper he co-authored. From what I can tell, Pettis has had some influence recently on the U.S. trade policy debate, but I have found his views hard...

4. Seminar on Legal Architecture of Remedies in the WTO Agreement

   Announcement: Interested WTO lawyers are invited to a one-hour academic feedback seminar on Zoom, hosted by Prof. Geraldo Vidigal, University of Amsterdam, to comment on a draft article by Lothar Ehring, written to pay tribute to Frieder Roessler. The paper...

5. The EU-Singapore Digital Trade Agreement: Experimentation with Data Flows Obligations and Exceptions Continues

   Over the past couple years, I've been looking at how digital trade agreements set out data flows obligations and exceptions. I've got a new one to examine, as the EU has published a pre-legal scrub version of its digital trade...