Timothy Lanier Meyer CV

Richard Allen/Cravath Distinguished Professor of International Business Law

School of Law

meyer@law.duke.edu

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3298-537X

Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708

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Selected Publications

The Foreign Commerce Power

Journal Article California Law Review · 2026 Link to item Cite

Plurilateralism and the Future of International Investment Law

Journal Article Journal of World Investment & Trade · 2025 Link to item Cite

Presidential Regulation

Journal Article Yale Journal on Regulation · 2025 Link to item Cite

The 'America First Trade Policy' in Practice

Journal Article American Journal of International Law · 2025 Link to item Cite

The Legal Authority (or Lack Thereof) for Trump’s Tariffs

Other Verfassungsblog · 2025 Link to item Cite

Consumption Governance: The Role of Production and Consumption in International Economic Law

Journal Article Brigham Young University Law Review · 2024 Link to item Cite

Copernican Revolution or Green Protectionism?

Chapter · 2024 Link to item Cite

Second Generation Flanking Policies: Addressing Extraterritorial and Non-Economic Costs of Trade Liberalization

Journal Article World Trade Review · 2024 Link to item Cite

Designing a New Paradigm in Global Trade

Report · 2024 Link to item Cite

Economic Security and the Separation of Powers

Journal Article University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 2024 Link to item Cite

How ‘Economic Security’ Is Re-Shaping Presidential Power

Other Just Security · 2024 Cite

The National Security Consequences of the Major Questions Doctrine

Journal Article Michigan Law Review · 2023 Link to item Cite

How the US and EU Can Rewrite Trade Rules to Fight the Climate Crisis

Other Blog (Roosevelt Institute) · 2023 Cite

The New U.S.-Taiwan Trade Agreement and Its Approval

Other Lawfare · 2023 Cite

The Legalization of Global Economic Governance: Contracting or Multilateralism?

Journal Article · 2023 Link to item Cite

A New Era at the Court of International Trade: Endemic, Executive Orders, and Enforcement

Journal Article Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law · 2023 Link to item Cite

Goldilocks Globalism: The Rise of Soft Law in International Governance

Book · 2022 Cite

The Political Economy of WTO Exceptions

Journal Article Washington University Law Review · 2022 Link to item Cite

Taxing, Regulating, and Trading Carbon: An Introduction to the Symposium

Journal Article AJIL Unbound · 2022 Link to item Cite

Reshaping Global Trade and Investment Law for a Green New Deal

Chapter · 2022 Link to item Cite

The Case for Mandating Climate-Risk Disclosure

Other Project Syndicate · 2022 Cite

A Pragmatic Approach to Carbon Border Measures

Journal Article World Trade Review · 2022 Link to item Cite

Trade and Climate, Law and Politics: A Response

Journal Article World Trade Review · 2022 Link to item Cite

The President’s (and USTR’s) Trade Agreement Authority: From Fisheries to IPEF

Other Lawfare · 2022 Cite

There Are Two Ways to Kick Russia Out of the World Trading System. One Is More Likely to Work.

International Law as Behavior

Book · 2021 Link to item Cite

Noncompliance as Law-making

Chapter · 2021 Link to item Cite

Cooperating Without Sanctions: Epistemic Institutions Versus Credible Commitments Regimes in International Law

Chapter · 2021 Link to item Cite

International Law as Behavior: An Agenda

Chapter · 2021 Link to item Cite

How to Treat the WTO's Problem with Precedent

Journal Article Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law · 2021 Link to item Cite

Leveling the Playing Field: Industrial Policy and Export-Contingent Subsidies in India-Export Related Measures

Journal Article World Trade Review · 2021 Link to item Cite

WTO Legal Issues Arising From Carbon Border Measures: An Introductory Primer

Journal Article · 2021 Link to item Cite

A Green Steel Deal: Toward Pro-Jobs, Pro-Climate Transatlantic Cooperation on Carbon Border Measures

Report · 2021 Link to item Cite

Industrial Policy and Local Content Rules in US Energy Policy

Chapter · 2021 Link to item Cite

Misaligned Lawmaking

Journal Article Vanderbilt Law Review · 2020 Link to item Cite

Alternatives to Treaty-Making— Informal Agreements

Chapter · 2020 Link to item Cite

Trade Law and Supply Chain Regulation in a Post-COVID-19 World

Journal Article American Journal of International Law · 2020 Link to item Cite

Baptists and Bootleggers in the Biodiesel Trade: EU–Biodiesel (Indonesia)

Journal Article World Trade Review · 2020 Link to item Cite

Trump’s Trade Strategy Points the Way to a U.S. Carbon Tariff

Other Lawfare · 2020 Cite

How to Protect America From the Next Economic Calamity

Other MarketWatch · 2020 Cite

Trade and the Separation of Powers

Journal Article California Law Review · 2019 Link to item Cite

The Law and Politics of Socially Inclusive Trade

Journal Article University of Illinois Law Review Online · 2019 Link to item Cite

It’s Economic Strategy, Stupid: The Case for a Department of Economic Growth and Security

Journal Article American Affairs · 2019 Cite

Instrumentalism

Chapter · 2019 Link to item Cite

Renegotiating International Investment Law

Journal Article Journal of International Economic Law · 2018 Link to item Cite

Free Trade, Fair Trade, and Selective Enforcement

Journal Article Columbia Law Review · 2018 Link to item Cite

Restoring Trade's Social Contract

Journal Article Michigan Law Review Online · 2018 Link to item Cite

Trade, Redistribution, and the Imperial Presidency

Journal Article Yale Journal of International Law Online · 2018 Link to item Cite

A Blueprint for a New American Trade Policy

Report · 2018 Link to item Cite

Why Canada’s Leaders Should Wait Out Trump’s NAFTA Deal

Other Politico · 2018 Cite

A Trade Policy for All

Other Foreign Affairs · 2018 Cite

The Power to Declare Trade War

Other Lawfare · 2018 Cite

Saving the Political Consensus in Favor of Free Trade

Journal Article Vanderbilt Law Review · 2017 Link to item Cite

Local Liability in International Economic Law

Journal Article North Carolina Law Review · 2017 Link to item Cite

Explaining Energy Disputes at the World Trade Organization

Journal Article International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics · 2017 Link to item Cite

Testimony Before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on the Nomination of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch to be Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (March 23, 2017)

Report · 2017 Link to item Cite

The Evolution of Codification: A Principal-Agent Theory of the International Law Commission's Influence

Journal Article · 2016 Link to item Cite

Shifting Sands: Power, Uncertainty and the Form of International Legal Cooperation

Journal Article European Journal of International Law · 2016 Link to item Cite

The World Trade Organization’s Role in Global Energy Governance

Chapter · 2016 Link to item Cite

Institutions and Expertise: The Role of Science in Climate Change Lawmaking

Chapter · 2016 Link to item Cite

Soft law

Chapter · 2016 Link to item Cite

How Local Discrimination Can Promote Global Public Goods

Journal Article Boston University Law Review · 2015 Link to item Cite

From Contract to Legislation: The Logic of Modern International Lawmaking

Journal Article Chicago Journal of International Law · 2014 Link to item Cite

How Compliance Understates Effectiveness

Journal Article American Society of International Law Proceedings · 2014 Link to item Cite

Book Reviews

Journal Article American Journal of International Law · 2014 Link to item Cite

How Compliance Understates Effectiveness

Journal Article AJIL Unbound · 2014 Link to item Cite

Explaining the Energy Regime Complex

Journal Article Carbon & Climate Law Review · 2014 Cite

Collective Decision-Making in International Governance

Journal Article AJIL Unbound · 2014 Link to item Cite

Good Faith, Withdrawal, and the Judicialization of International Politics

Journal Article Questions of International Law · 2014 Cite

How Different Are Treaties and Modern Customary International Law? A Response to Verdier and Voeten

Journal Article AJIL Unbound · 2014 Link to item Cite

Book Reviews: Explaining the Energy Regime Complex

Journal Article Carbon & Climate Law Review · 2014 Cite

Epistemic Institutions and Epistemic Cooperation in International Environmental Governance

Journal Article Transnational Environmental Law · 2013 Link to item Cite

Testimony Before the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate, Hearing on the Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities (November 5, 2013)

Report · 2013 Cite

Energy Subsidies and the World Trade Organization

Journal Article ASIL Insights · 2013 Link to item Cite

Codifying Custom

Journal Article University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 2012 Link to item Cite

Global Public Goods, Governance Risk, and International Energy

Journal Article Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law · 2012 Link to item Cite

Towards a Communicative Theory of International Law

Journal Article Melbourne Journal of International Law · 2012 Link to item Cite

Independence and Hierarchy in International Scientific Cooperation

Chapter · 2012 Cite

The Architecture of International Energy Governance

Journal Article American Society of International Law Proceedings · 2012 Link to item Cite

Book Reviews

Journal Article American Journal of International Law · 2012 Link to item Cite

Power, Exit Costs, and Renegotiation in International Law

Journal Article Harvard International Law Journal · 2010 Link to item Cite

International Soft Law

Journal Article Journal of Legal Analysis · 2010 Link to item Cite

Soft Law as Delegation

Journal Article Fordham International Law Journal · 2009 Link to item Cite

International Common Law: The Soft Law of International Tribunals

Journal Article Chicago Journal of International Law · 2009 Link to item Cite

Customary International Law in the 21st Century

Chapter · 2008 Link to item Cite

Federalism and Accountability: State Attorneys General, Regulatory Litigation, and the New Federalism

Journal Article California Law Review · 2007 Link to item Cite