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Joel P. Trachtman

Professor of International Law

Education

General Course Certificate, London School of Economics and Political Science
BA, Columbia College
JD, Harvard Law School

Professional Activities

Member of editorial boards of American Journal of International Law, European Journal of International Law and Journal of International Economic Law; Consultant to the OECD, UNCTAD and APEC; former Chairman, International Economic Law Interest Group, American Society of International Law; former Honorary Secretary, International Law Association (American Branch); practiced international business and finance law with Shearman & Sterling (New York and Hong Kong).

Curriculum Vitae

Joel P. Trachtman

Programs & Centers

• International Business Relations Program
• Hitachi Center on Technology and International Relations

Courses

Fall 2009

• ILO L240 - Legal and Institutional Aspects of International Trade

GMAP Courses

• GMA L240 - International Business and Economic Law

Research Interests

International economic law, including international trade, finane, migration, investment, and business law.

International Economic Law and Policy Research Blog - A weblog dedicated to current developments and scholarship in the field of international economic law and policy.

Faculty Research Profile - “Why is it that the world has spent a great deal of diplomatic capital and time working on liberalizing movement of goods and services at the WTO, but has spent little time working on liberalizing movement of people to find work?"

Selected Publications

Working Papers

• Review Essay: The Law Market, by Erin A. O’Hara and Larry E. Ribstein (Oxford, 2009), forthcoming in American Journal of International Law.
• Continued Suspense: WTO Discipline of Domestic Regulation and the Relationship Between Non-Discrimination and Risk Assessment (with Bernard Hoekman).
• Doing Justice: The Politics and Economics of International Distributive Justice, forthcoming in edited volume.
• International Law and Domestic Political Coalitions: The Causes of Compliance with International Law

Books

• The International Law of Economic Migration: Toward the Fourth Freedom, Upjohn Institute 2009.
• The Economic Structure of International Law, Harvard University Press 2008.
• Developing Countries in the WTO Legal System (co-editor with Chantal Thomas, and chapter author), Oxford University Press 2009.
• Ruling the World: Constitutionalism, International Law, and Global Governance (co-editor with Jeffrey Dunoff, and chapter author), Cambridge University Press 2009.International Law and International Politics (editor), Ashgate Press 2008.
• Collected Essays: The International Economic Law Revolution and the Right to Regulate Cameron May, 2006.

Recently Published Articles and Chapters

• Canada-Wheat: Discrimination, Non-Commercial Considerations, and the Right to Regulate Through State Trading Enterprises (with Bernard Hoekman), 7 (Special Issue 1) World Trade Review 45 (2008).
• Subsidization, Price Suppression, and Expertise: Causation and Precision in Upland Cotton (with André Sapir), 7 (Special Issue 1) World Trade Review 183 (2008).
• Measuring the Shadow of the Future (with George Norman), 2008:1 Illinois Law Review.
• International Economic Law Research: A Taxonomy, in International Economic Law: The State and Future of the Discipline (Colin B. Picker, Isabella D. Bunn & Douglas W. Arner, eds., 2008).
• Embedding Mutual Recognition at the WTO, 14:5 Journal of European Public Policy 780 (2007).
• Regulatory Jurisdiction and the WTO, 10 Journal of International Economic Law 1093 (2007).
• The WTO Cathedral, 43 Stanford Journal of International Law 127 (2007).
• Welcome to Cosmopolis, World of Boundless Opportunity, 39 Cornell International Law Journal 477 (2006).