2024

In April 2019 the World Trade Organization issued its panel report Russia - Traffic in Transit,1 which contained the first WTO panel ruling on the security exception in the 1994 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Prior to this decision, the security exception had never been interpreted and its role in WTO dispute settlement was unclear and perhaps controversial.

The CBA International Law Section executive held its annual meeting in Ottawa on May 10 and 11. After meeting with representatives from Global Affairs Canada and the Department of Justice on May 10 – stay tuned for summaries of those productive conversations – the executive met on May 11 to discuss their vision for the Section’s work in the coming year.

Venezuela, once one of Latin America’s oldest and strongest democracies with a booming economy, is in crisis.

The International Bar Association held its 22nd annual Arbitration Day on March 14 and 15, 2019 in Montreal. Hundreds of lawyers gathered from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.

The latest webinar presented by the International Law Section looks at the shifting landscape surrounding international trade agreements, in a time of Brexit and an increasingly protectionist U.S. administration.

Mark Carmilleri and Abigail Dubinieki co-presented in the National International Law Section’s first webinar in a series on the general theme of the intersections between trade and other topics.

A ubiquitous form of foreign direct investment1 is investment in residential real estate. However, neither trade and investment treaties nor reports on investment reflect this reality. Presumably, investment in housing purchases and construction form part of larger industry categories, e.g. “unspecified” or “business activities,”2 or is obscured due to the elusive nationality of investors,3 consequently escaping classification as greenfield, M&A, or portfolio investment.

Governments, international organizations and non-governmental organizations derive a considerable part of their understanding of corruption and how to counter it from independent research.

Human rights are about each of us living in dignity and the human rights project is about standing up to injustice and showing solidarity in the face of oppression. Due to economic globalization, operations of transnational corporations have an impact on local and international markets and affairs of state.

Andrew Lanouette of Cassidy Levy Kent summarizes a presentation made by Craig Forcese to the International Law Section in May on the topic of Canada’s new covert national security vision, as encapsulated in bills C-44 and C-51.