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6 Aug 2016, 8:52 am
Skovgaard Poulsen, Investment Protection in TTIP: Three Feasible Proposals Simon Lester, Six Degrees of Integration: How Closely Will the TTIP Integrate the Transatlantic Market? [read post]
3 Dec 2015, 9:10 pm
Simon Lester (Cato Institute) has posted an ASIL Insight on The TPP's Contribution to Public International Law. [read post]
12 Nov 2015, 8:29 am by Stewart Baker
I also acknowledge a significant caveat drawn to my attention by Simon Lester of Cato: Despite the TPP, a member is free to adopt any measure “that it considers necessary for … the protection of its own essential security. [read post]
19 Apr 2015, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
[Simon Lester, Cato] House hearing on Obama executive order blacklisting contractors over labor violations in unrelated areas of their business, or at subcontractors [witnesses and testimony, Walberg statement, press release, video, SHRM] Sixth Circuit retaliation decision confirms need for kid-glove handling of employees who file discrimination complaints [Jon Hyman] Spontaneous protest doesn’t come cheap: SEIU spent $24 million in 2014 on fast food/retail wage movement… [read post]
30 Mar 2015, 3:06 am
Contents include:Reinhard Quick, Why TTIP Should Have an Investment Chapter Including ISDS Simon Lester, Rethinking the International Investment Law System Adarsh Ramanujan & Seetharaman Sampath, ‘Double Counting’: Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel? [read post]
24 Mar 2015, 3:02 am by Walter Olson
., Federalist Society holds star-filled conference on Treaties and National Sovereignty at George Washington University [Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz] Trade agreements are being promoted as extending progressive labor and environmental policies around the globe, hmmm [Simon Lester, related] Courts in European nations urged to use Charter to promote affirmative welfare rights, strike down laws liberalizing labor markets [Council of Europe] “Croatian-Serb war offenses litigated… [read post]
25 Feb 2015, 12:46 am
Joel Trachtman, Gabrielle Marceau, Simon Lester, Prof. [read post]
11 Nov 2014, 3:30 am by Walter Olson
” [Gerard Magliocca] Krugman not notably consistent on views of statutory interpretation [Simon Lester] ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber caught on camera saying “lack of transparency” key to passing the bill; he “may believe that American voters are stupid, but he was the one dumb enough to say all this on camera” [Peter Suderman, Mickey Kaus ("I am big. [read post]
5 Oct 2014, 11:22 pm by INFORRM
“Free Speech Today”, Lord Lester QC, Polish Yearbook of International Law, Vol 33 (2013), pp.129-144, SSRN. [read post]
17 Jul 2014, 9:42 am
Lorand Bartels (Univ. of Cambridge - Law) has posted Social Issues in Regional Trade Agreements: Labour, Environment and Human Rights (in Bilateral and Regional Trade Agreements, Simon Lester, Bryan Mercurio & Lorand Bartels eds., 2d ed., forthcoming). [read post]
8 Jul 2014, 1:14 am
Joel Trachtman, Gabrielle Marceau, Simon Lester, Prof. [read post]
1 Jul 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Ted Cruz publishes “Limits To the Treaty Power” in Harvard Law Review Forum [FedSoc Blog, Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz] “The Ever Expanding Role of Trade Agreements: Human Rights” [Simon Lester, Cato] EU brass, reformist NGOs insisted that Romania shut down international adoption. [read post]
28 Jun 2014, 12:48 am
Contents include:Inu Barbee and Simon Lester, The TPP and the future of trade agreements Elisabeth Bürgi Bonanomi, An enabling regulatory environment for sustainable investment: the example of trade law Luciana Dutra de Oliveira Silveira & Ricardo Inglez de Souza, The public interest analysis in trade remedies investigations in Brazil Eduardo Márquez Certucha, Social Entrepreneurship: bringing together impact investment, trade facilitation and regulatory… [read post]
23 Apr 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
[Simon Lester, Cato] “Teller Wins Lawsuit Over Copied Magic Trick Performance” [Hollywood Reporter] Custom, informal law enforce joke “property” among comedians [McGraw/Warner, Slate] I read the news today, oh boy/ And now I have to pay a license fee/ [ABA Journal on actions against song lyrics sites; earlier here and here; h/t for joke to Rogers T.] [read post]
16 Mar 2014, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
The Los Angeles Review of Books reviews Floyd Abrams's Friends of the Court: On the Front Lines with the First Amendment (Yale University Press).The New Republic reviews Doris Kearns Goodwin's The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (Simon & Schuster).New Books in History has an interview with Benjamin Elman, author of Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China (Harvard University… [read post]