There is a new empirical turn in international legal scholarship. Building on decades of
theoretical work in law and social science, a new generation of empirical studies is …

China is by far the main target of antidumping (AD) litigation for most of its major trading
partners. Recently, however, China itself has started using AD instrument intensively and …

This is the first paper to empirically examine whether a country's use of an import restricting
trade policy distorts a foreign country's exports to third markets. We first develop a theoretical …

We consider the purpose and design of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its
predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and review recent …

The WTO has delivered policy outcomes that are very different from those likely to emerge
out of the recent wave of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Should economists see this …

What affects a country's decision of whether to formally engage in a trade dispute directly
related to its exporting interests? This article empirically examines determinants of affected …

The potential for international law to reduce power asymmetries depends on weaker
countries learning to navigate the legal system. This paper examines the use of courts by …

During the past half-century, states have established a large number of international trade
institutions, both multilateral and regional in scope. The existing literature on this topic …

The majority of the world's countries have antidumping (AD) statutes in place, hundreds of
AD actions occur annually across these countries, and AD criteria and procedures have …

Advocates of antidumping (AD) laws downplay their negative effects by arguing that the
trade flows that are subject to AD are small and their distortions negligible. But while the …