Faculty Scholarship

The Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership: Analysis and Commentary, (co-editor, with Jorge Huerta Goldman) (2021)

North America's Shifting Supply Chains: USMCA, COVID-19, and the U.S-China Trade War, 54 Int'l L. 121 (2021).

Freer Trade Between the United States and the European Union? in A Life Dedicated to Family, Academia and Friends:  A Festschrift in Memoriam and in Honor of Professor Stephen T. Zamora ___ (James Skelton ed., forthcoming 2020).

The Impact on the Demise of WTO Dispute Settlement on State-to -State Dispute Settlement under Free Trade Agreements:  The USMCA Example, ___ Society of Int’l Economic Law ___ (forthcoming 2020).

WTO Case Review 2018, 37 Ariz. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 49 (2020) (co-author, with Raj Bhala, et al.).

USMCA Provisions on Intellectual Property, Services, and Digital Trade, Mexico Center, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy (Jan. 17, 2020).

The USMCA:  Updating NAFTA by Drawing on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Mexico Center, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy (Feb. 21, 2020)

The USMCA’s Carryovers from NAFTA, Mexico Center, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy (Mar. 18, 2020)

Canada’s Approaches to Investor State Dispute Settlement:  Addressing Divergencies among CETA, USMCA, CPTPP and the Canada-China FIPA, Transnational-Dispute-Management, Issue 3 (Mar. 2020).

Important New Features in the USMCA, Mexico Center, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy (May 5, 2020)

The USMCA's Future in Context, Mexico Center, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy (Jun. 16, 2020)

The Scorecard of the Phase One Trade Agreement, EJIL: Talk! (Feb. 14, 2020), (co-author, with Sergio Puig).

Addressing Environmental Protection in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), in World Trade And Local Public Interest – Trade Liberalization And National Regulatory Sovereignty ___ (forthcoming 2019).

WTO Case Review 2017, 36 Arizona J. Int’l & Comp. L. 253 (2019) (co-author, with Raj Bhala et al.).

The U.S.-Mexico Trade Relationship under AMLO:  Challenges and Opportunities, Mexico Center, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy (Apr. 23, 2019), https://doi.org/10.25613/egap-1t91.

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement:  Settlement of Disputes, Mexico Center, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy (May 2, 2019), https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/united-states-mexico-canada-agre....

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement:  Labor Rights and Environmental Protection, Mexico Center, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy (June 13, 2019), https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/protecting-labor-rights-and-environment-under-usmca/.

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement:  Energy Production and Policies, Mexico Center, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy (Sept. 17, 2019), https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/united-states-mexico-canada-agreement-energy-production-and-policies/.

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement:  Textiles, Apparel, and Agriculture, Mexico Center, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy (Oct. 21, 2019), https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/textiles-apparel-and-agriculture-usmca/.

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement:  Tariffs, Customs, and Rules of Origin, Mexico Center, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy (Feb. 21, 2019), https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/united-states-mexico-canada-agreement-tariffs-customs-and-rules-origin/.

Opinion, Ratify the New North American Trade Deal. It's Good for Texas, Houston Chronicle (May 28, 2019), https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Ratify-the-new-North-American-trade-deal-It-s-13902156.php

Book Review, 113 Am. J. Int'l L. 649 (2019) (reviewing C. Donald Johnson, The Wealth of a Nation:  A History of Trade Politics in America (2018)).

The Scorecard of the USMCA Protocol of Amendment, EJIL: Talk! (Dec. 23, 2019), https://www.ejiltalk.org/the-scorecard-of-the-usmca-protocol-of-amendment/ (co-author, with Sergio Puig).

The Risks and Rewards of Renegotiating the North American Trade Relationship, 33 Md. J. Int'l L. 127 (2018).

An Existential Threat to WTO Dispute Settlement:  Blocking Appointment of Appellate Body Members by the United States, Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 18-26 (2018).

What to Make of Trump's Recent Second Look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership, World Politics Review (Apr. 19, 2018), https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/24586/what-to-make-of-trump-s-recent-second-look-at-the-trans-pacific-partnership.

Addressing Dispute Resolution Institutions in a NAFTA Renegotiation, Mexico Center, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy (Apr. 3, 2018), https://www.bakerinstitute.org/files/12865.

Opinion, US Needs USMCA If It's Serious about Competing with China, Hill (Nov. 15, 2018), https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/416739-us-needs-usmca-if-its-serious....

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement:  Overview and Analysis, Mexico Center, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy (Dec. 11, 2018), https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/usmca-overview-and-analysis/.

Investor-State Dispute Settlement in US Law, Politics and Practice:  The Debate Continues, in Second Thoughts:  Investor-State Arbitration between Developed Democracies 217 (Armand de Mestral ed., 2017).

Increasing Host State Regulatory Flexibility in Defending Investor-State Disputes:  The Evolution of U.S. Approaches from NAFTA to the TPP, 50 Int'l Law. 231 (2017).

The CETA Ratification Saga: The Demise of ISDS in EU Trade Agreements?, 49 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 361 (2017).

WTO Case Review 2016, 34 Ariz. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 281 (2017) (co-author, with Raj Bhala et al.).

The Spaghetti Bowl Revisited:  Coexistence of Regional Trade Agreements Such As NAFTA with the Trans-Pacific Partnership, 48 Geo. J. Int'l L. 557 (2017).

Renegotiating the EU-UK Trade Relationship:  Lessons from NAFTA, Brexit:  The International Legal Implications, Paper No. 2 (Centre for International Governance Innovation, Oct. 2017), reprinted in Complexity’s Embrace:  The International Law Implications of Brexit 47 (Oonagh E. Fitzgerald & Eva Lein eds., 2018).

Climate Change Innovation, Products and Services under the GATT/WTO System, in Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Climate Change 271 (Joshua D. Sarnoff ed., 2016) (co-author, with Padideh Ala'i).

TTIP and the Post-Bali WTO:  Towards a New World Trade Order?, in International Economic Law and Governance:  Essays in Honour of Mitsuo Matsushita 367 (Julien Chaisse & Tsai-yu Lin eds., 2016) (co-author, with Laura Nielsen).

Assessing the Impact of WTO and Regional Dispute Resolution Mechanisms on the World Trading Systems, in Establishing Judicial Authority in International Economic Law 31 (Johanna Jemielniak, Laura Nielsen, & Henrick Palmer Olsen eds., 2016).

The TPP and RCEP:  Mega-Trade Agreements for the Pacific Rim, 33 Ariz. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 57 (2016).

Increasing the Host State’s Regulatory Flexibility under FTA Investment Chapters:  US Approaches under NAFTA, the AUSFTA and the TPP, Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 16-21 (2016).

WTO Case Review 2015, 33 Ariz. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 505 (2016) (co-author, with Raj Bhala et al.).

Introduction to U.S. Free Trade Agreements, 5 Br. J. Am. Leg. Studies 299 (2016).

Book Review, 22 Int'l Trade L. & Reg. 32 (2016) (reviewing Jeswald W. Salacuse, The Law of Investment Treaties (2d ed. 2015)).

Opinion, My Turn:  All 4 Presidential Candidates Agree on Trade - And They're Wrong, Arizona Republic (Apr. 7, 2016), http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2016/04/07/transpacific-par....

WTO Case Review 2014, 32 Ariz. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 497 (2015) (co-author, with Raj Bhala et al.).

The Scottish Referendum:  Another Major Step Toward Independence?, 21 Int'l Trade Law & Reg. 1 (2015).

Book Review, 21 Int'l Trade L. & Reg. 86 (2015) (reviewing Amrita Narlikar, Martin Daunton, & Robert M. Stern eds., The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization (2012)).

Challenges for the United States in Negotiating a BIT with China:  Reconciling Reciprocal Investment Protection with Policy Concerns, 31 Ariz. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 203 (2014).

WTO Case Review 2013, 31 Ariz. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 475 (2014) (co-author, with Raj Bhala et al.).

Book Review, 20 Int'l Trade L. & Reg. 22 (2014) (reviewing Raj Bhala, Modern GATT Law:  A Treatise on the Law and Political Economy of the GATT and Other WTO Agreements (2013)).