Mona Paulsen

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Assistant Professor in International Economic Law, LSE Law School; research/teach trade law, investment law, development, economic security. @loyaladvisor on the Bird.
websitehttps://www.lse.ac.uk/law/people/academic-staff/mona-paulsen

πŸ‘‡πŸ» even setting this question in historical context against the minds of the NIEO architects designing a new global project in the swamps of the double standard of debt in the 70s.

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Mo Ibrahim nails what is perhaps THE question for economic development, the energy transition and prosperity in the @[email protected]

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β€œMo Ibrahim nails what is perhaps THE question for economic development, the energy transition and prosperity in the @FT”

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Last week, the US appealed the US-Steel and Aluminium Products panel report arguing that no international body can judge its security claims. Well, the US consents to WTO rules pursuant to its constitutional processes. Or are we asking the wrong questions?

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@[email protected] has a post @[email protected] on a comment from USTR Tai on adjudicating national security measures @[email protected]. I have a longer response to all the December panel reports forthcoming, but for now let me tackle one claim - the "democracy deficit" (EU debates literature). Short 🧡

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β€œ@snlester has a post @WorldTradeLaw on a comment from USTR Tai on adjudicating national security measures @WTO. I have a longer response to all the December panel reports forthcoming, but for now let me tackle one claim - the "democracy deficit" (EU debates literature). Short πŸ§΅β€

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Excellent add-on for my @[email protected] students that are taking public international law or my graduate seminars in my global economic governance and investment treaty law!

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'Capitalism and the Doctrines of International Law' - a series of three lectures by B.S. Chimni (of our own advisory board πŸ™‚) on 14+15 March, hybrid event that you can attend online https://www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/press/events/2023/03/hersch-lauterpacht-memorial-lecture-2023-capitalism-and-doctrines-international-law-part-1-dr-b-s

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Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture 2023: 'Capitalism and the Doctrines of International Law - Part 1' - Dr B S Chimni, Jindal Global University | Lauterpacht Centre for International Law

Due to strike action, these lecture dates have been rearranged to the following: A series of three lectures by Dr. B.S.Chimni, distinguished Professor of International Law, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India. 4.30 pm - 5.30 pm Tues 14 March Lecture 1: Mapping the Terrain 6.00 pm - 7.00 pm Tues 14 March Lecture 2: Exploring Nexus 4.30 pm - 5.30

That's just a snippet of a larger story. Still, it captures the reality that these negotiators were coming at this from the point of view of trade experts (competence of economics/economic relations), not lawyers.
Within the League of Nations, economic advisors met to discuss a way to peacefully settle economic disputes. What did they weigh as a potential problem? Lawyers gunking up the works.

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Today πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ appealed a pair of @[email protected] national security disputes and offered some sharp words for πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³, which it blames for undermining the global trading system.

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β€œToday πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ appealed a pair of @wto national security disputes and offered some sharp words for πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³, which it blames for undermining the global trading system. Full remarks here:”

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Friendshoring today but cannot forget Anghie's reflections on the history of sovereignty doctrine: The West used relationships of power and inequality to maintain economic and political superiority, then attempts to entrench this through ostensibly neutral international law (215)