Geraldo Vidigal
@geraldovidigal.bsky.social
International (Trade) Law @ University of Amsterdam. Managing Editor, Legal Issues of Economic Integration (@LIEIJournal.bsky.social). Tweets on trade, int'l law, and interesting things. 🇧🇷 in 🇳🇱
Challenge: convince Dutch people that this is an essential part of a research university
November 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Challenge: convince Dutch people that this is an essential part of a research university
And of course updated map
September 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
And of course updated map
The WTO Fisheries Subsidies Agreement, the WTO's first environmental agreement, is now in force! To ensure it works, all large WTO Members must ratify it. Here's @coppetainpu.bsky.social's helpful visual of countries that still have not yet ratified (Brazil, Kenya, Tonga & Vietnam ratified today!).
September 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The WTO Fisheries Subsidies Agreement, the WTO's first environmental agreement, is now in force! To ensure it works, all large WTO Members must ratify it. Here's @coppetainpu.bsky.social's helpful visual of countries that still have not yet ratified (Brazil, Kenya, Tonga & Vietnam ratified today!).
Netherlands in turmoil - live footage
June 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Netherlands in turmoil - live footage
This September, we will be hosting the @sielnet.bsky.social PEPA Conference in Amsterdam! Postgraduates and early academics and professionals, send us your papers and join us at the @uvalawschool.bsky.social!
May 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This September, we will be hosting the @sielnet.bsky.social PEPA Conference in Amsterdam! Postgraduates and early academics and professionals, send us your papers and join us at the @uvalawschool.bsky.social!
Update - and hat tip to @janethanderson.bsky.social: the Warrant of Arrest is out, and it does say 'secret' (top corner, now crossed out). www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...
March 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Update - and hat tip to @janethanderson.bsky.social: the Warrant of Arrest is out, and it does say 'secret' (top corner, now crossed out). www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...
Right - but it's also a high-profile international court. I feel increasingly out of my depth but, the way the text reads to me, there should be first an arrest warrant under Art 58, and only then a request for arrest and surrender under Art. 89. The latter is subject to Art. 87, but is the former?
March 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Right - but it's also a high-profile international court. I feel increasingly out of my depth but, the way the text reads to me, there should be first an arrest warrant under Art 58, and only then a request for arrest and surrender under Art. 89. The latter is subject to Art. 87, but is the former?
Thanks! But this is about requests for cooperation - does this include arrest warrants? Again, not my field, it's just that issuing secret arrest warrants seems like the sort of power I would want any court, international or not, to have expressly stated & regulated!
March 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Thanks! But this is about requests for cooperation - does this include arrest warrants? Again, not my field, it's just that issuing secret arrest warrants seems like the sort of power I would want any court, international or not, to have expressly stated & regulated!
Hadn't thought about the World Cup in all this! Maybe we do Brazil again?
March 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Hadn't thought about the World Cup in all this! Maybe we do Brazil again?
And now here's what can happen
January 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
And now here's what can happen
Another interesting development is that, while in the beginning developing countries were the heavy users of public health exception invocations, since 2015 high-income countries have become the most common source of invocations of these exceptions.
January 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Another interesting development is that, while in the beginning developing countries were the heavy users of public health exception invocations, since 2015 high-income countries have become the most common source of invocations of these exceptions.
The field evolved based on these threat-based negotiations. Interestingly, there were loud, public invocations of public health exceptions for a period (2003-2008), followed by a stabilization of these invocations.
January 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The field evolved based on these threat-based negotiations. Interestingly, there were loud, public invocations of public health exceptions for a period (2003-2008), followed by a stabilization of these invocations.
What is International Trade Law going to look like over the next few years? We have been here before - in the 1980s. You can find a sketch of an answer in the article Pramiti Parwani and I just published on the "Interactional Law" that developed in the field of public health exceptions to patents.
January 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
What is International Trade Law going to look like over the next few years? We have been here before - in the 1980s. You can find a sketch of an answer in the article Pramiti Parwani and I just published on the "Interactional Law" that developed in the field of public health exceptions to patents.
A great Special Issue of the European Foreign Affairs Review! In a piece with Alessandra Lehmen, we look into the negotiation of sustainability provisions in the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement, which took place while the EU developed and applied a growing unilateral trade-sustainability arsenal.
January 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
A great Special Issue of the European Foreign Affairs Review! In a piece with Alessandra Lehmen, we look into the negotiation of sustainability provisions in the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement, which took place while the EU developed and applied a growing unilateral trade-sustainability arsenal.
Yup - It's in another bit of the thread that 'trade policy' is in a sense defined as that which falls short of 'coercion'. Even here, though, I am skeptical that Nicaragua is authority for the view that there is a customary rule prohibiting economic coercion. ICJ seems to say the opposite actually.
January 9, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Yup - It's in another bit of the thread that 'trade policy' is in a sense defined as that which falls short of 'coercion'. Even here, though, I am skeptical that Nicaragua is authority for the view that there is a customary rule prohibiting economic coercion. ICJ seems to say the opposite actually.
True, but also true for rules in general...if there's a sign, there's a story.
January 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
True, but also true for rules in general...if there's a sign, there's a story.
Sim e sim - e a série ainda, que é melhor que o filme! Porém, se quiser legenda em outra língua, melhor achar um piratão no YouTube...
January 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Sim e sim - e a série ainda, que é melhor que o filme! Porém, se quiser legenda em outra língua, melhor achar um piratão no YouTube...
So weird that the Court decided it has the power to do this though! UN Charter empowers only AG & SC to request AOs; the Statute uses the passive voice; in comes the Court and addresses SG as the primary organ required to transmit it AO requests. Sounds like there's some quirky little story there...
December 24, 2024 at 3:46 PM
So weird that the Court decided it has the power to do this though! UN Charter empowers only AG & SC to request AOs; the Statute uses the passive voice; in comes the Court and addresses SG as the primary organ required to transmit it AO requests. Sounds like there's some quirky little story there...
Career paths not taken: tamer of ferocious animals
December 24, 2024 at 11:31 AM
Career paths not taken: tamer of ferocious animals
I just shared on LinkedIn an automatically translated version of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement Factsheet, released by the Brazilian government at the conclusion of negotiations in Montevideo this morning (can't upload PDFs to Bluesky). Here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
December 6, 2024 at 3:53 PM
I just shared on LinkedIn an automatically translated version of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement Factsheet, released by the Brazilian government at the conclusion of negotiations in Montevideo this morning (can't upload PDFs to Bluesky). Here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
The meadows also known today as Swan Lake?
November 28, 2024 at 5:58 PM
The meadows also known today as Swan Lake?
In Oxford for the next two days - any places I shouldn't miss?
November 28, 2024 at 5:53 PM
In Oxford for the next two days - any places I shouldn't miss?
Snow day across the Channel - still peak Autumn in Amsterdam
November 19, 2024 at 10:13 AM
Snow day across the Channel - still peak Autumn in Amsterdam
This seems wrong though. I flipped the image and the dots went with it.
November 18, 2024 at 8:46 AM
This seems wrong though. I flipped the image and the dots went with it.
Great thread - can we still say 'thread'? - by Ronald on last week's "Agreement on Climate Change, Trade and Sustainability". Besides trade, the ACCTS for the first time disciplines (imperfectly) fossil fuel subsidies and ecolabelling. Major downside: only four parties - but open to accessions!
November 18, 2024 at 8:10 AM
Great thread - can we still say 'thread'? - by Ronald on last week's "Agreement on Climate Change, Trade and Sustainability". Besides trade, the ACCTS for the first time disciplines (imperfectly) fossil fuel subsidies and ecolabelling. Major downside: only four parties - but open to accessions!