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Reforming the World Trading System
The 1994 agreement establishing the World Trade Organization (WTO) regulates over 95% of world trade amongst 148 member countries. The November 2001 Declaration of the Fourth …
The Investment Treaty Regime and Public Interest Regulation in Africa
A large amount of foreign direct investment (FDI) has been poured into Africa in recent decades and these investments can come with adverse effects on the environment, human …
Regulating Health and Environmental Risks under WTO Law
The last sixty years witnessed an unprecedented expansion of international trade. The system created by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and later by the World Trade …
Fresh Water and International Economic Law
Fresh water resources are at the same time ecological, economic, social, and cultural goods and must be managed accordingly. However, efforts to manage these resources are …
Treaty Interpretation by the WTO Appellate Body
This book analyses how the Appellate Body uses particular principles of general international law in interpreting the WTO covered agreements. It deals equally with general …
Treaty Shopping in International Investment Law
Treaty shopping, also known under the terms of nationality planning, corporate (re-)structuring or corporate maneuvering, implies a strategic change of nationality or strategic …
Human Rights in International Investment Law and Arbitration
This book offers a systematic analysis of the interaction between international investment law, investment arbitration and human rights, including the role of national and …
Regulatory Competition and Economic Integration
Regulatory Competition and Economic Integration addresses one of the hottest policy questions on both sides of the Atlantic: at what level of government should regulation be …
The Political Economy of Investment Arbitration
The Political Economy of Investment Arbitration asks how political institutions and actors in the host state of an investment contribute to the emergence of investor-state …
'Like Products' in International Trade Law
The obligations of international trade law hinge upon the question of what constitute "like products". Trade disputes will often involve an examination of whether the products in …
Domestic Law in International Investment Arbitration
Although domestic law plays an important role in investment treaty arbitration, this issue is little discussed or analysed. When should investment treaty tribunals engage with …
Human Rights and the WTO
The international trading system has come under increasing attack by activists as being in conflict with human rights law. Others have defended the system as contributing more to …