Writing

How can governments address genuine security risks without making access to technology, trade and investment increasingly unpredictable? Five proposed standards for restraint.

What attracts technology investment, and what drives it away? A chapter on the scope for international cooperation amid growing geopolitical rivalry.

How can WTO accession support development in Timor-Leste? A World Bank report on reform, economic diversification and the work needed to turn commitments into results.

A report for the Australian Embassy in Bangkok on opportunities for deeper trade and investment ties, prepared with Bolliger & Company.

In early 2021, I was asked by The Commonwealth Secretariat (ComSec) an intergovernmental organization based in London, to write a research paper to document how much official development assistance (ODA) - aid…

The pandemic showed what regulators could achieve under political pressure. What would it take to bring that urgency to other medicines and treatments?

How to lose the race for technological pre-eminence This is a subject I started to think a lot about while working at Huawei Technologies in Shenzhen, which is here: As the attentive reader, will notice,…

Some research and advocacy on what governments can do to avoid undermining the benefits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution In late 2019 Hosuk Lee-Makiyama, who I had already cooperated on when writing the…

How least developed countries can use trade negotiations to secure better infrastructure, connectivity and access to trade finance.

How can governments address genuine security risks without unnecessarily dismantling the global value chains and innovation networks on which our prosperity depends?

Digital trade agreements promised greater certainty. How much of that promise did their commitments, exceptions and exclusions actually deliver?

One of the first things I was asked to do when I joined Huawei was to draft, publish and disseminate an industry white paper on a - then - new set of trade rules being negotiated in different fora on trade…

Could the digital trade rules agreed by twelve very different economies provide a benchmark for future negotiations—even beyond the TPP?

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…

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.

A November 2014 study of Taiwan’s options beyond RCEP membership: bilateral agreements, competitive market access and the politics of regional integration.

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,…

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.

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…

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…

When do internet restrictions become trade barriers—and how much can a legal victory achieve when domestic political priorities stand in the way?

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.

Written at Georgetown after the financial crisis: what rules should apply when governments enter markets as owners, investors and competitors?

Reflections on three assignments in Damascus in 2009: a snapshot of Syria’s trade policy before the civil war transformed its economic outlook.

Two assignments in Pohnpei in 2010, an unsuccessful effort to encourage WTO accession, and lessons on building competitiveness in a small island nation spanning a vast territory.

A heads-up to Indonesia’s Trade Minister: why a WTO ruling against Turkey’s rice import restrictions exposed vulnerabilities much closer to home.

What I learned from advising countries seeking WTO membership—and sitting on the other side of the table as a Member’s delegate.

When do imports cause injury, and when does the legal test make safeguards too difficult to use? An early paper on WTO trade remedies, later presented in Seoul.

An early conference paper from my time at the World Trade Institute, asking what WTO membership had meant in practice for the Kyrgyz Republic.

One of my first papers at the World Trade Institute: India’s challenge to European antidumping practices and the limits trade rules placed on investigating authorities.