The TPP and the Digital Economy: The Agreement’s Potential as a Benchmark for Future Rule-Making
Could the digital trade rules agreed by twelve very different economies provide a benchmark for future negotiations—even beyond the TPP?
Aid for Trade in Lowering Trade Costs
Some research on overcoming infrastructure and institutional constraints in Indonesia This is a paper I co-authored with Michelle Limenta and Sianti Candra as I was serving as the Director of the Center for…
Taiwan and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
How could Taiwan respond to exclusion from the TPP? A December 2014 study of market access, domestic reform and the political constraints on regional integration.
Taiwan and RCEP: Finding a Route into Regional Trade
A November 2014 study of Taiwan’s options beyond RCEP membership: bilateral agreements, competitive market access and the politics of regional integration.
Life after Doha
My book chapter offerring some reflections prior to the 9th WTO Ministerial Conference on Bali This is a book chapter that I wrote for an edited volume commissioned by the World Trade Institute in Berne,…
Australia's Antidumping Regime: Rules and Practice
How does Australia's antidumping system work in practice? My contribution to Kluwer's comparative guide examines investigations, duties and the balance between protection and competitiveness.
A Handbook on Negotiating Preferential Trade Agreements: Services Liberalization
Simon Lacey and Pierre Sauve, December 2003 | Berne, Switzerland In 2013, about ten years after the above photo was taken, Pierre and I published a handbook on negotiating services liberalization in the…
Implementation of national broadband plans
Agreed Regulatory Principles and their Evolution This paper is one of four that I wrote while I was in residence at the Georgetown University Law Center's Institute of International Economic Law, then still…
Trade Rules and Their Limits: Internet Restrictions as Actionable Trade Barriers
When do internet restrictions become trade barriers—and how much can a legal victory achieve when domestic political priorities stand in the way?
Rules of Origin: Squaring the Circle
Can competing rules of origin be reconciled when products are increasingly made across borders? An examination of the technical and political obstacles to common rules.
When Leviathan Comes to Market: Emerging Disciplines on State Intervention in Markets
Written at Georgetown after the financial crisis: what rules should apply when governments enter markets as owners, investors and competitors?
Syria at the Crossroads: A Review and Comparative Analysis of Syria’s Current Trade Policy Reality
Reflections on three assignments in Damascus in 2009: a snapshot of Syria’s trade policy before the civil war transformed its economic outlook.