Joel P. Trachtman

Professor of International Law

Research Interests:

International economic law, including international trade law, international financial law and international business law.

Research Blog

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

Working Papers:

  • Toward Efficient Remedies in the WTO Legal System
  • The WTO Constitution: Tertiary Rules for Intertwined Elephants
  • International Trade: Regionalism, in forthcoming Handbook of International Economic Law (Andrew Guzman & Alan Sykes, eds. 2006)
  • Jurisdiction in WTO Dispute Settlement, in forthcoming Key Issues in WTO Dispute Settlement (R. Yerxa and B. Wilson, eds. 2005).
  • Global Cyberterrorism, Jurisdiction, and International Organization, in forthcoming The Law and Economics of Cybersecurity (Mark Grady & Francesco Parisi, eds.)
  • George Norman and Joel P. Trachtman, The Customary International Law Game, in forthcoming American Journal of International Law (2005)
  • Michael Klein and Joel P. Trachtman, Prudence or Protection: Regulation and Trade in Banking Services.
  • U.S. Human Rights Laws and International Trade, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love U.S. Unilateralism, forthcoming in edited conference volume.
  • Additional Working Papers: http://papers.ssrn.com/author=015021

Faculty Research Profile:

“Trachtman is currently working on a design for a less wasteful system of remedies for violation of WTO law. He is evaluating a system whereby monetary damages are calculated based on lost welfare, and the offended State may recoup from the violating state the actual monetary loss it has sustained.. ..." Read More