WorldTradeLaw.net Information

WorldTradeLaw.net is a Limited Liability Company based in the state of Virginia in the United States. It is owned and run by husband and wife team Simon Lester and Kara Leitner (see below for a more detailed background on us). You can contact us by e-mail at info@worldtradelaw.net or by filling out this form. After spending a number of years working as international trade lawyers, we started this web site in January of 2001. Our goal in setting up the site was to create a research tool for people interested in international trade law issues. Based on our own experience in researching these issues, we felt that there would be great value in a web site which would serve as a portal to the wide variety of information scattered in various places throughout the web. In addition, we recognized that the web is the perfect medium for providing timely analysis of legal issues, because information can be made available quickly to people all over the world. The web site has two aspects. First, there is the free portion of the site, which is available to anyone who surfs the web. This aspect of the site consists of several elements, including the following: well-organized and easy-to-access primary source documents related to international trade law; a large collection of links to other sources of information on the web; and notifications of trade-related news headlines. Second, we also offer our own analysis of certain trade law issues through an annual subscription service we call the"Dispute Settlement Commentary Service. Through this service, we provide summary and critical analysis of all new WTO Panel and Appellate Body reports within 1-3 weeks after they are circulated to the WTO Members. In addition, we have completed this same summary and analysis for all past WTO reports, and have created an index of legal provisions and terms for these reports. Since the launch of this site, we have added additional features to the subscriber area, including a statistical database with searchable/sortable tables covering ...