Dominic Coppens

Selected publications

• Co-author, “International Court of Justice sets the pace for climate action,” SustainableViews Navigating policy and regulation, August 4, 2025.
• Co-author, “Multi-Forum Strategies to Tackle Climate Change and Other Complex Problems: A Note from Practitioners ,” EJIL:Talk!, November 1, 2022.
• Co-author, “EU a Step Closer to Adopt Expansive New Rules Covering Batteries for Medical Devices, Swiss Life Sciences Briefing, July 2022.
• Co-author, “How To Use Carbon Credits on the Pathway to Net Zero Emissions? Draft Vcmi Claims Code,” Sidley White Paper, July 2022.
• Co-author, “The Paris Rulebook and its Implications for Carbon Credit Markets,” Oxford Energy Forum, June 2022.
  
• Co-author, "Securing a Just and Inclusive Global Green Economy Through Trade Policy," TESS Briefing Note, March 2022.
• Co-author, “The Opportunities and Risks of Carbon Credits on the Pathway to Net Zero,” Swiss Life Sciences Briefing, March 2022.
• Co-author, “Fishing for a Solution: Using Technical Assistance and Capacity Building to Unlock a Fair and Ambitious Fisheries Subsidies Deal,” September 14, 2021.
• Various commentaries on the SCM Agreement to forthcoming Commentaries on World Trade Law, Wolfrum and Stoll (eds.), Brill.
• “Energy Subsidies and International Trade Law,” in M. Mehling and H. van Asselt (eds.), Research Handbook on Climate Finance and Investment Law, Edward Elgar.
• Co-author, “US, EU Rules as EV Batteries Reach End of Road,” Wardsauto, April, 2021.
• Co-author, “EU Green Deal – Challenges & Opportunities for GCC firms,” Oil & Gas News, April, 2021.
• Co-author, “Helping Sustainable Trade: Ways to ‘Green’ the Harmonized System,” Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS), January, 2021.
• Contributed to “Facilitating Trade Along Circular Electronics Value Chains,” World Economic Forum, September 2020.
• Contributed to “Plastics, the Circular Economy, and Global Trade,” World Economic Forum, July 2020.
• Co-author, “Een kwarteeuw Wereldhandelsorganisatie: verwezenlijkingen, crisissen en uitdagingen,” 38 Rechtskundig Weekblad, January, 2020.
• Co-author, “Evidence in WTO Dispute Settlement: From the Burden of Proof to Invisible Experts,” in M. Tejeda (ed.), Practical Aspects of WTO Litigation, 2020.
• Co-author, “Chapter V: Subsidies,” in A. Appleton and P. Macrory (eds.), Business Guide to Trade and Investment, 2017.
• “Twenty years of (re)-shaping WTO subsidy Law by the Appellate Body and panels,” in L. Rubini and J. Hawkins (eds.), What Shapes the Law? Reflections on the History, Law, Politics and Economics of International and European Subsidy Disciplines, European University Institute, 2016.
• Co-author, “A tale of two rules: The intersection between WTO and OECD disciplines on export credit support,” Global Policy, November 26, 2014.
• “WTO Disciplines on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures – Balancing Policy Space and Legal Constraints,” Cambridge University Press, 2014.
• Co-author, “Mode 3 of the GATS: A Model for Disciplining Measures Affecting Investment Flows?,” in Z. Drabek and P. Mavroidis (eds.), Regulation of Foreign Investment – Challenges to International Harmonization, 2013.
• Co-author, “Liberalising Trade - Comparing the Experiences of the WTO and EU: The Influence of General Principles of Law,” in S. E. Gaines, B. E. Olsen, and K. E. Sørensen (eds.), Liberalising Trade in the EU and the WTO, 2012.
• “How special is the Special and Differential Treatment under the SCM Agreement? A legal and normative analysis of WTO subsidy disciplines on developing countries,” 12:1 World Trade Review, 2013.
• “WTO Disciplines on Export Credit Support for Agricultural Products in the Wake of the US – Cotton Case and the Doha Round Negotiations,” Journal of World Trade, April 2010.
• Co-author, “An Overview of the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures – Including a discussion on the Agreement on Agriculture,” in K. W. Bagwell, G. A. Bermann, and P. C. Mavroidis (eds.), Law and Economics of Contingent Protection in International Trade, December 2009.
• “How Much Credit for Export Credit Support Under the SCM Agreement?” 12(1) Journal of International Economic Law, 2009.
• Co-author, “GATS and Domestic Regulations: Balancing the Right to Regulate and Trade Liberalization,” in M. Andenas and K. Alexander (eds.), The World Trade Organization and Trade in Services, 2008.
• Co-author, “Global Economic Policy-making: Exploring Legal Linkages Between the World Trade Organization and the Bretton Woods Institutions,” 3 International Organizations Law Review, 2006.

Recent Sidley Updates

• Co-author, “EU Omnibus Package: Key Changes Proposed by the Commission on the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism,” Sidley Update, March 26, 2025.
• Co-author, “EU Omnibus Package: Key Changes Proposed by the Commission on ESG Reporting and Due Diligence,” March 3, 2025.
• Co-author, “With Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, EU Will Impose Ecodesign Requirements on Virtually All Products Sold in EU,” Sidley Update, July 18, 2024.
• Co-author, “Unprecedented ESG Due Diligence Obligations — EU Adopts Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive,” Sidley Update, May 28, 2024.
• Co-author, “New EU Directive Strengthens Consumer Protection Laws on Greenwashing and Circularity,” Sidley Update, April 5, 2024.
• Co-author, “New EU ESG Legislation Will Affect Non-EU Companies With Significant EU Revenues,” Sidley Update, December 19, 2023.
• Co-author, “An ESG Wave: Environmental Claims Under Scrutiny in the EU,” Sidley Update, March 29, 2023.
• Co-author, “Far-Reaching EU Rules to Counter Foreign Subsidies Now Adopted”, Sidley Update, December 19, 2022.
• Co-author, “Key Developments and Takeaways for Business and Industry From Climate Conference of the Parties 26,” Sidley Update, November 16, 2021.
• Co-author, “EU ‘Fit for 55’,”Sidley White Paper, October 2021.
• Co-author, “The EU Adopts Ambitious Climate Law – A Prelude to a Wave of Green Regulations,” Sidley Update, July 9, 2021.
• Co-author, “European Commission Tables Far-Reaching Proposal on Countering Foreign Subsidies,” Sidley Update, May 20, 2021.