New China-Russia bilateral investment agreement takes effect: MOFCOM

Adobe Acrobat in 2025: ✅Offering AI Summary ✅Offering AI Assistant ✅Offering AI Suggestions ❌Allowing me to click through the link that I can see in front of me on the friggin PDF

This week's EU trade policy news you may have missed including: 📌More Mercosur drama in the EP 📌EU-Africa summary 📌Narrow EP vote on Western Sahara 📌Call for stricter measures in e-commerce borderlex.net/2025/11/28/w...

Duterte stays in custody.

Challenge: convince Dutch people that this is an essential part of a research university

Please join us for our third PIL Discussion Group seminar on November 20, 2025. Dr @geraldovidigal.bsky.social will deliver a talk entitled ‘Adjudicating over Anarchy: Judicial Remedies, Compliance, and Enforcement in International Law.’ See further here www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

Colombia loses WTO frozen fries dispute as compliance panel backs EU => This is the first compliance panel under the alternative WTO appeals mechanism #MPIA By @chrishorseman.bsky.social borderlex.net/2025/10/23/c...

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

This is a fundamental point that 99% of higher-ed coverage, and 100% of immig coverage, have missed.

WT/GC/274, China's position paper regarding special and differential treatment in the @wto.org - 24 September 2025

“Jimmy Wales rebuilt the library of Alexandria using nothing more than nerds’ need to correct one another”

Academic BSK, how would you cite an article in the British Yearbook of International Law 2021, when there is still no physical version? I went with "forthcoming", but in 2025 it just sounds sloppy (on my part...). Any alternatives? Are we just DOIing references now?

Closing LIEI 52(3), Davide Genini examines fiscal instruments developed after the invasion of Ukraine for EU joint borrowing, arguing that unified fiscal capacity, which would produce a quantum leap in European integration, nonetheless remains exceptional. kluwerlawonline.com/journalartic...

In LIEI 52(3), Arianna Andreangeli examines how the EU's Artificial Intelligence Act applies to algorithms that determine prices offered to consumers, arguing that price differentiation algorithms may prejudice the EU internal market and breach EU competition law. kluwerlawonline.com/journalartic...

In LIEI 52(3), Mira Burri, María Vásquez Callo-Müller and Anja Mesmer map and analyse the novel phenomenon of Digital Economic Agreements, focusing exclusively on digital trade and establishing dedicated regulatory frameworks for the data-driven economy. kluwerlawonline.com/journalartic...

The WTO Fisheries Subsidies Agreement, the WTO's first environmental agreement, is now in force! To ensure it works, all large WTO Members must ratify it. Here's @coppetainpu.bsky.social's helpful visual of countries that still have not yet ratified (Brazil, Kenya, Tonga & Vietnam ratified today!).

🎉 The @WTO #FisheriesSubsidies Agreement is now in force–a big step to curb subsidies threatening #SustDev. But the work isn’t over yet. It’s crucial to implement the agreement & conclude additional rules to #StopFundingOverfishing. 🔗 www.iisd.org/articles/sta...

1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

LIEI 52(3) is out! In the editorial, Johanna Aleria Lorenzo examines the alleged 'mission creep' at the International Monetary Fund, examining how the IMF's leadership, faced with the evolving complexity of global financial issues, has been fulfilling its mandate. kluwerlawonline.com/journalartic...

Tomorrow our new LLM students start. Today I prioritized: ❌️Ensuring that the Introduction slides provide perfect and fully updated practical information ✅️Turning the bland pop culture quiz into a quiz about 17th Century Amsterdam, the VOC, Grotius, Spinoza, and where students can visit this stuff.

European universities: we want to attract all the amazing researchers being driven away by new restrictions, funding cuts and unpredictability. Also European universities: sorry, anyone wishing to bring their 2026 grant here should have applied in March 2024.

Excellent podcast on the state of and prospects for tariffs / deals / retaliation with @alanbeattie.bsky.social and @explaintrade.com. www.ft.com/content/d0a7...

I think we really ought to consider the dramatic rise in popularity of podcasts and video essays as conclusive disproof of the 'everyone hates lectures' idea in pedagogy. Turns out that, even when faced with many alternatives, many people just like to be told something at length.

Closing LIEI 52:2, Prabhash Ranjan examines the India-EFTA Free Trade Agreement and the innovative obligation to promote USD 100 billion of investment in India, assessing its nature, applicable legal tests, and what might ensue in case of non-compliance. kluwerlawonline.com/journalartic...

In LIEI 52:2, Vitaliy Pogoretskyy and Muhammad Umar Riaz consider the complexities underlying the regulation of data flows under international trade law, reflecting on regulation by key players and prospects for multilateral cooperation on the matter at the WTO. kluwerlawonline.com/journalartic...

In LIEI 52:2, Peter Holmes and Sunayana Sasmal examine the possibilities for WTO adjudicators to admit legal gaps (non liquet). Despite potential pitfalls, increasing the scope for non liquet might help restore the WTO's ability to perform its core functions. kluwerlawonline.com/journalartic...

LIEI 52:2 is out! In the Editorial, Kati Cseres argues that the EU single market agenda has shifted. Beyond ensuring the removal of barriers to free movement, EU institutions are now engaged in affirmative market-making through common, uniform regulation. kluwerlawonline.com/journalartic...

Predatory journal behavior. Am I the only one now receiving review requests from journals I had not heard of, for articles which are way outside my field of expertise and even discipline, seemingly based on weak keyword-based matches? Is there an acceptable policy on this?

"China has announced plans to offer zero-tariff treatment to all 53 African countries with which it maintains diplomatic ties, deepening economic cooperation as it positions itself as a key trade and investment partner." possible AU-PRC tariff free zone africa.businessinsider.com/local/market...

Brazil is hoping to sell its first sovereign debt in the Chinese market as soon as this year — a so-called panda bond — debt issued in Chinese renminbi by a foreign borrower — as the Lula administration seeks to diversify in the midst of the U.S. tariff global trade war. www.ft.com/content/a550...

The deadline to submit paper proposals for PEPA/SIEL 2025 is tomorrow!

Netherlands in turmoil - live footage

"I want an academic job because I really enjoy doing research and don't want it to be something I do only on weekends." Oh, my sweet summer child...

Verbose writers of the world, do your editors also have a problem with the intra-footnote Ibid? E.g., "See [case reference], para 37 ('[quote]'). See also Ibid., para. 125-132". Isn't it clear to everyone that the second Ibid. means "The same case as before?" Are there alternatives I am not seeing?

123 days

This September, we will be hosting the @sielnet.bsky.social PEPA Conference in Amsterdam! Postgraduates and early academics and professionals, send us your papers and join us at the @uvalawschool.bsky.social!

🚨🚨Breaking: New #EU-UK deal is now done. Things are slightly confusing so I will try to clear key things up here with support of this @skynewsrss.bsky.social report. 🧵 news.sky.com/story/uk-and...

Dear friends from outside Poland, let me help you understand what happened yesterday during the presidential elections in Poland. The first round was won by the candidate of the main ruling party under Donald Tusk - Rafal Trzaskowski (31.36%). 1/

Confirmed: EU-reset deal now done. Key block was fishing rights. They’ve agreed: 🐟EU access to UK fishing grounds extended until 2038 w/ UK arguing annual renegotiations didn’t suit anybody 🐟 no link between fishing & SPS meaning no time limit on duration of checks on food, animal & agric products

My paper Authoring While Dead, "co-authored" with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., is now published in the Georgia Law Review. I discuss and critique the common music industry practice of retroactively adding people as co-authors of songs they didn't write. georgialawreview.org/wp-content/u...

This September, we will be hosting the @sielnet.bsky.social PEPA Conference in Amsterdam! Postgraduates and early academics and professionals, send us your papers and join us at the @uvalawschool.bsky.social!

In the EU-Mercosur FTA the Paris Agreement is now an essential element of the Treaty, there are more specific deforestation obligations and generally more specific sustainable development obligations say Profes Alessandra Lehman and @geraldovidigal.bsky.social @ieep.eu #GreenTradeNetwork

Last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined. wapo.st/4luJyph

Incredible that this seems so hard to contemplate. So many people assuming against every declaration that there is some big negotiation awaiting if only they can figure out the right dances!

💰 O mundo depois das #tarifas ▻ @lucasableite.bsky.social, professor de RI ▻ @dr.rubensduarte, no IG, professor de RI ▻ #FofocaGeopolítica, canal no YouTube ▻ Podcast #GeografiaEmMeiaHora ▻ @TanliYang, no X, jornalista chinesa ▻ @geraldovidigal.bsky.social, professor da Universidade de Amsterdam

🚨🚨 WOW: UK is prepared to retain some regulatory alignment with the EU and accept #CJEU supervision over a deal to cut checks on imports of foods & agricultural products- in a significant a move on the promised EU-UK #reset five years after #Brexit.🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

[Chef's kiss]