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WASHINGTON D.C. — The Institute of International Economic Law, in partnership with the University of Sussex’s UK Trade Policy Observatory (UKTPO), hosted a half-day forum on The Future of U.S.-U.K. Trade. We were honored to welcome our distinguished keynote speakers, including Representative Adrian Smith, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee, and James Roscoe, Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy Washington.
The program brought together voices from government, industry, and academia for a timely and important conversation on shared U.S.-U.K. economic and security interests in a rapidly shifting global trade landscape.
WASHINGTON D.C. — The Sovereign Debt Forum partnered with the IMF Legal Department for a conference and workshop, Public Debt Transparency: Aligning the Law with Good Practices. The event drew finance officials and parliamentarians, as well as representatives of supreme audit institutions, civil society organizations, financial market participants, and academics from 72 countries around the world and across the national income spectrum. Professor Anna Gelpern moderated a panel that elicited different perspectives on an actionable reform program. Professor Sean Hagan ('86) highlighted the challenges that lack of debt transparency poses for debt crisis response.
SDF previewed the #PublicDebtIsPublic Initiative— the first centralized public debt documentation and data commons — for the debt management workshop participants, and briefed national authorities and other stakeholders on the pilot phase of the initiative. Professor Gelpern, Katherine Shen, and Whitney Carr worked with IMF staff to organize the conference; SDF participants included Sarah Ludwick ('22), Allison Bailey ('24), our partners from the Queen Mary University of London and Georgetown's Massive Data Institute, and SDF affiliated scholars from the United States and Europe.
The Institute of International Economic Law at the Georgetown University Law Center is proud to share an amicus brief filed on May 5 on behalf of 148 members of Congress at the U.S. Court of International Trade. IIEL’s co-director, Prof. Jennifer Hillman, served as counsel to the Members of Congress in the filing of the brief.
The brief supports a legal challenge brought by 12 state attorneys general to the Trump Administration’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) as a basis for imposing sweeping tariffs—an approach that has raised serious constitutional and statutory questions. “Amici represent diverse districts and hold diverse positions on American trade policy,” the brief states, on behalf of a group that includes members of the House Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs, and Judiciary Committees. “But Amici are united in their view that the President has usurped Congress’s constitutional authority by using IEEPA to impose chaotic, across-the-board tariffs.”
Other counsel on the brief include Peter Harrell, Fred Norton, Nathan Walker, Josephine Petrick, Celine Purcell, Emily Kirk, and Rebecca Kutlow.
