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

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 becomes challenging yet crucial to ensure that they are not open to misuse. The recent Panel Ruling in Russia — Measures Concerning Traffic in Transit is the very first attempt by the WTO to clarify the scope and ambit of National Security Exception.

Regional Trade Agreements: Fall 2020

Students will analyze legal aspects of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) in their historical, economic and political contexts. The principal topics include: trade in goods, trade in services, trade remedies (subsidies and dumping), foreign investment regulation, trade & environment (with an emphasis on climate change), intellectual property rights, and dispute settlement. The foundation of the course will focus on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA & USMCA), and the course will compare NAFTA approaches to more recent developments in other RTAs, such as the CPTPP.

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

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 tribunal reviews the antidumping and countervailing duty determinations of domestic government agencies. In US-Mexico disputes, this hybrid system brings together mainly Spanish and English speaking lawyers from the civil law and the common law to solve domestic legal disputes applying domestic law.

Mesa redonda: 50 años de la Convención de VIena sobre derecho de los tratados

Este año se conmemoran los 50 años de la Convención de Viena y los profesores de derecho internacional del ITAM decidieron celebrarlo con una mesa redonda. Asistieron más de treinta alumnos y profesores. El Profesor Bradly Condon, Titular de la Cátedra para México, habló sobre "La interpretación multilingüe en la OMC", como ejemplo de cómo las reglas de interpretación se han evolucionado por medio de la práctica en la solución de diferencias en la OMC.

Summer courses at Chinese University of Political Science and Law

Designed and taught a course titled 'World Trade Organization Law, Trade and Gender, & Dispute Settlement' at Chinese University of Political Science and Law, Biejing, China. Great experience including gender issues as part of a trade law course. I am attaching the course outline here.

Book Presentation: “Public Private Partnership at WTO Dispute Settlement: Enabling Developing Countries”

I virtually presented my book “Public Private Partnership at WTO Dispute Settlement: Enabling Developing Countries” at the “Second Biennial Conference of the South Asian International Economic Law Network” at Kerala, India. Thanks to Professor Abhijit Das for his comments and acclaims and a very big thanks to Professor James J. Nedumpara for inviting my comments and organizing this conference.

World Trade Law Course

This course focussed on the laws, principles, functioning and jurisprudence of World Trade Law. Students looked at the principles of multilateral and bilateral trade and engaged with the practice of international trade law with the help of current jurisprudence and hypothetical dispute scenarios. The students received an appreciation of the purpose and functions of the WTO and be familiar with its principal rules, impact and jurisprudence.

The ASEAN Trade Dispute Settlement Mechanism

This is a chapter in the book titled The Legitimacy of International Trade Courts and Tribunals (found here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/legitimacy-of-international-trade-courts-and-tribunals/34E5E4E315147B45E1CFA667F0DC487E). ASEAN was established as a political and security forum and it was only in 1977 that ASEAN started to focus on regional economic integration.

From NAFTA to USMCA: Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd

The renegotiation of NAFTA was surrounded by a dramatic atmosphere, just as Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland predicted. The negotiations took place against a backdrop of unilateral trade measures, President Trump’s mercantilist approach to trade policy, and the United States’ specified preference for bilateral trade deals. This article argues that, for the most part, economic, political and cultural relations in the NAFTA countries are bilateral in nature, but with important trilateral production chains in specific sectors, most notably in the automotive sector.

RTAs versus the WTO in the dispute settlement: Latin American experience

The article analyses the experience of Latin American countries (LAC) with regards to their participation in various economic dispute settlement mechanisms. Despite the existence of multilateral bodies and rules for dispute resolution, countries creating regional trade blocs usually try to develop their own dispute settlement systems for the defense of national economic interests. Latin America and the Caribbean are not an exception. The Andean Community, CACM, CARICOM, MERCOSUR, and NAFTA all have more or less comprehensive dispute settlement bodies.

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