My friend Tim Meyer has a new paper entitled "A Political Theory of Legal Exceptions." Back before the pandemic, Tim and I and a few others submitted a proposal for a SIEL
2020 panel entitled "Making Space for Public Policy in International Economic Law Agreements: The Role of Obligations and Exceptions." That panel never happened, [...]
Overall Damage to Banks, Merchants, Card Companies, and Consumers Estimated at more than $1 Billion A Ukrainian national was sentenced in the Western District of Washington
to 10 years in prison for his high-level role in the criminal work of... [...]
Nothing gets a public international lawyer more stirred up than a maxim of interpretation, and few maxims hit a nerve more readily than "in dubio mitius". Thanks to Petros
Mavroidis' recent (and highly recommended) post on transnational subsidies, I found myself squandering a Saturday - when I should have been grading papers -- typing [...]
A federal grand jury in San Francisco returned an indictment today charging a Houston-based tax attorney of conspiring with the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of a private
equity firm to defraud the IRS. The grand jury further charged him... [...]
Last year the European Union (EU) imposed countervailing duties (CVDs) against imports of glass fiber originating in Egypt. Nothing shocking so far, other than the fact that
the EU measure was counteracting subsidies granted by … China. How should we think about this and similar issues? [...]
Internal Revenue Service on 04/14/2021 Abstract: This document contains proposed regulations that include requirements that certain foreign persons and certain foreign-owned
partnerships must meet in order to elect the Federal income tax benefits provided by section 1400Z-2 of the Internal... [...]
This is from remarks by U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai yesterday at a WTO virtual conference on COVID-19 vaccine equity: We hope to hear more today about how the market
once again has failed in meeting the health needs of developing countries. As part of that we have to consider what modifications and reforms to our trade rules [...]
This is from remarks by U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai today on issues related to trade and the environment: Even as investors take a greater interest in companies’
environmental risk exposure, the multilateral trading system has no rules to address the corporate incentive to participate in the race to the bottom. [...]
I did a series of posts recently on digital trade issues, and I have now consolidated them all into a short Cato paper. Here's the intro: National debates over policies
that affect the flow of digital information are heating up as censorship, surveillance, control over personal data, and requirements to store data locally have emerged [...]
From the SIEL: The Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) is pleased to invite you to its February Conversation entitled ‘Special and Differential Treatment under WTO’,
with Dr Rashmi Banga (UNCTAD), Prof. Jan Wouters (KU Leuven), Dr Inu Manak (Cato Institute), Vineet Hegde (KU Leuven), chaired and moderated by Jan Yves [...]
