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Free Trade, Fair Trade, and Selective Enforcement
(Columbia Law Review, 2018)
The 2016 presidential election was one of the most divisive in recent memory, but it produced a surprising bipartisan consensus. Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders all agreed that U.S. trade agreements should ...
Saving the Political Consensus in Favor of Free Trade
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2017)
2016 is the year that the political consensus in favor of liberalized international trade collapsed. Across the world, voters’ belief that international trade agreements lead to economic inequality threatens to derail ...
Restoring Trade's Social Contract
(Michigan Law Review Online, 2018)
As we write, the United States, Canada, and Mexico are renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). These talks—and their possible failure—represent the biggest shift in U.S. economic policy in a generation. ...
The Law and Politics of Socially Inclusive Trade
(University of Illinois Law Review, 2019)
American ambivalence toward international institutions is nothing new. In his farewell address, George Washington famously warned against foreign entanglements. After World War I, the U.S. Senate rejected the Treaty of ...
Intellectual Property: A Beacon for Reform of Investor-State Dispute Settlement
(Michigan Journal of International Law, 2019)
Investor-state dispute-settlement (ISDS) clauses give multinational investors (corporations) a right to sue a state in a binding proceeding before an independent arbitration tribunal. This jurisgenerative right to file a ...