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“The New Rules on Digital Trade in Latin American Regional Trade Agreements”

28 July 2020

While recent technological advances have allowed an increase in digital trade, this growth has occurred with a lack of clear and defined rules. This deficiency has become an issue for Latin American countries. With the multilateral trade regime impasse, m ...

Translation: Dispute settlement of the World Trade Organization (WTO)

28 July 2020

the views of the WTO. This article builds on the author’s earlier research ...

“Financial Risk Management in the Anthropocene era”, in T. Walker et al,

28 July 2020

We examine the financial risk management of the climate crisis from three perspectives. First, we assess the serious risks from climate change. The ecological and financial consequences of climate change depend on the future path of emissions, as well as ...

“Mi casa es tu casa? The Limits of Inter-systemic Dispute Resolution”, World Trade Review 2020.

28 July 2020

The ‘new NAFTA’ agreement between Canada, Mexico and the United States maintained the system for binational panel judicial review of antidumping and countervailing duty determinations of domestic government agencies. In US-Mexico disputes, this hybrid sys ...

“To Dystopia and Beyond: The WTO in a Warming Megaregional World” in Lewis, et al (Eds.) A Post-WTO International Legal Order

28 July 2020

This chapter highlights the linkages between the climate crisis and trade negotiations in a dystopic post-WTO world. It argues that the window of opportunity to achieve an effective multilateral trade regime has closed and will be sealed shut by accelerat ...

Research paper "The First WTO’s Ruling on National Security Exception: Balancing Interests or Opening Pandora’s Box?"

25 February 2020

For a multilateral system to be sustainable, it is important to have several escape clauses which can allow countries to protect their national security concerns. However, when these escape windows are too wide or ambiguous, defining their ambit and scope ...

Trumping Capacity Gap with Negotiation Strategies: The Mexican USMCA Negotiation Experience

25 February 2020

Note: All views or omissions are author's own. This paper is solely for academic exchange purposes, and it does not reflect or suggest WTO's view on this or any other matter at all. In the past few months, we have witnessed the “worst deal” in t ...

Measuring the Gender-Responsiveness of Free Trade Agreements: Using a Self-Evaluation Maturity Framework

25 February 2020

In the recent years, we have witnessed a sharp increase in the number of free trade agreements (FTAs) with gender-related provisions. The key champions of this evolution include Canada, Chile, and the European Union. These countries have proposed a new pa ...

The limits of inter-systemic dispute resolution/ Mi casa es tu casa? The challenges for bicultural, bijuridical and bilingual ad

14 November 2019

The ‘new NAFTA’ agreement between Canada, Mexico and the United States maintained the previous system for binational panel judicial review. This system provides for ad hoc tribunals composed of three panelists from one country and two from the other. The ...

Emissions Trading Schemes under International Economic Law. by JAMES MUNRO.

14 November 2019

In this book review, Bradly Condon, WTO Chair in Mexico, finds that Emissions Trading Schemes under International Economic Law is a well-written and timely book, which addresses many important issues regarding the application of the international economic ...

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