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Overview

Joost Pauwelyn is affiliated with the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with significant contributions to political science and international relations, strategy and management, general economics, econometrics and finance, sociology and political science, and accounting.

The main topics of Joost Pauwelyn's work include:

  • World Trade Organization Law
  • International Arbitration and Investment Law
  • Global trade and economics
  • European and International Law Studies
  • International Law and Human Rights
  • International Law and Aviation
  • Law, logistics, and international trade

Recent publications by Joost Pauwelyn cover a range of issues within international law and trade:

  • "Who Guards the 'Guardians of the System'? The Role of the Secretariat in WTO Dispute Settlement" (2022), published in the American Journal of International Law
  • "WTO Rulings and the Veil of Anonymity" (2022), published in the European Journal of International Law
  • "Export Restrictions in Times of Pandemic: Options and Limits Under International Trade Agreements" (2020), published in the Journal of World Trade
  • "The WTO's Multi-Party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement (MPIA): What's New?" (2023), published in World Trade Review

Joost Pauwelyn's frequent co-authors include:

  • Krzysztof Pelc
  • Charlotte Sieber-Gasser
  • James Hollway
  • Jean-Frédéric Morin
  • David Kleimann

Their work appears regularly in scholarly venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, World Trade Review, Journal of International Economic Law, American Journal of International Law, and European Journal of International Law.

The body of research is strongly situated within the intersections of international trade, law, and policy, exploring the mechanisms and implications of the World Trade Organization alongside arbitration and investment law issues. This includes analysis of institutional roles, procedural aspects of the WTO dispute system, and regulatory responses to global challenges such as pandemics.

Best Publications

  • Conflict of Norms in Public International Law: How WTO Law Relates to other Rules of International Law

    Joost Pauwelyn

  • The Role of Public International Law in the WTO: How Far Can We Go?

    Joost H. B. Pauwelyn

  • Nondiscrimination in Trade and Investment Treaties: Worlds Apart or Two Sides of the Same Coin?

    Nicholas DiMascio;Joost Pauwelyn

  • Enforcement and Countermeasures in the WTO: Rules Are Rules - Toward a More Collective Approach

    Joost H. B. Pauwelyn

  • Informal International Lawmaking

    Joost Pauwelyn;Ramses A. Wessel;Jan Wouters

  • The Transformation of World Trade

    Joost H. B. Pauwelyn

  • Bridging Fragmentation and Unity: International Law as a Universe of Inter-Connected Islands

    Joost Pauwelyn

  • When structures become shackles: stagnation and dynamics in international lawmaking

    Joost Pauwelyn;Ramses A. Wessel;Jan Wouters

  • The Rule of Law Without the Rule of Lawyers? Why Investment Arbitrators are From Mars, Trade Adjudicators from Venus

    J. Pauwelyn

  • Forum Shopping before International Tribunals: (Real) Concerns, (Im)Possible Solutions

    Joost Pauwelyn;Luiz Eduardo Salles

  • A Typology of Multilateral Treaty Obligations: Are WTO Obligations Bilateral or Collective in Nature?

    Joost H. B. Pauwelyn

  • The WTO agreement on sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures as applied in the first three SPS disputes. EC - Hormones, Australia - salmon and Japan - varietals

    J Pauwelyn

  • Conflict of norms or conflict of laws?: different techniques in the fragmentation of public international law

    Ralf Michaels;Joost H.B. Pauwelyn

  • U.S. Federal Climate Policy and Competitiveness Concerns: The Limits and Options of International Trade Law

    Joost Pauwelyn;Joost Pauwelyn

  • Conflict of Norms in Public International Law

    Joost Pauwelyn

  • At the Edge of Chaos?Foreign Investment Law as a Complex Adaptive System, How It Emerged and How It Can Be Reformed

    Joost Pauwelyn

  • The Use of Experts in WTO Dispute Settlement

    Joost Pauwelyn

  • THE PUZZLE OF WTO SAFEGUARDS AND REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS

    Joost Pauwelyn

  • Human rights and international trade

    Thomas Cottier;Joost Pauwelyn;Elisabeth Bürgi

  • International Trade Law

    Andrew T. Guzmán;Joost Pauwelyn;Aspen Publishers

  • Evidence, proof and persuasion in WTO dispute settlement. Who bears the burden?

    Joost H. B. Pauwelyn

  • The Trade Regime as a Complex Adaptive System: Exploration and Exploitation of Environmental Norms in Trade Agreements

    Jean Frédéric Morin;Joost Pauwelyn;James Hollway

  • How to Win a World Trade Organization Dispute Based on Non-World Trade Organization Law?

    Joost Pauwelyn

  • WTO Dispute Settlement Post 2019: What to Expect?

    Joost Pauwelyn;Joost Pauwelyn

  • Rien ne Va Plus? Distinguishing domestic regulation from market access in GATT and GATS

    Joost H. B. Pauwelyn

  • Rational Design or Accidental Evolution? The Emergence of International Investment Law

    Joost Pauwelyn

  • Non-Discrimination in Trade and Investment Treaties: Worlds Apart or Two Sides of the Same Coin?

    Nicholas A. DiMascio;Joost Pauwelyn;Joost Pauwelyn

  • The Rule of Law without the Rule of Lawyers? Why Investment Arbitrators are from Mars, Trade Adjudicators are from Venus

    Joost Pauwelyn;Joost Pauwelyn

  • Informal International Lawmaking: An Assessment and Template to Keep it Both Effective and Accountable

    J. Pauwelyn;Ramses A. Wessel;J Wouters

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Wouters
Jan Wouters KU Leuven
Alan O. Sykes
Alan O. Sykes Stanford University
John H. Jackson
John H. Jackson Georgetown University
Petros C. Mavroidis
Petros C. Mavroidis Columbia University
Robert Howse
Robert Howse New York University
Steve Charnovitz
Steve Charnovitz George Washington University
Thomas Cottier
Thomas Cottier University of Bern

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