Despite that transatlantic trade negotiations are in halt, an economic and strategic case for cooperation continues to prompt the EU and US to look for other options to engage in reducing trade barriers. One of the areas that carry a great potential is regulatory cooperation, on which, despite...

Harmonizing policies toward a specific State’s environmental policies or the World Trade Organization (WTO)’s economic policies can affect States’ rights to implement and enforce national environmental or economic policies. The State harmonization requirement, which restricts trade unless...

This Article observes that the recent jurisprudence between international trade and investment law is converging in a way which the free market value and public interests are duly reconciled. The Article contends that such jurisprudential convergence is structurally preordained yet historically...

EU law establishes an internal market. To achieve that goal, it acts to a large extent as a regulator, setting standards. These standards are often legally binding inside of the jurisdiction of the European Union, but increasingly travel beyond the borders of the European Union on the back of...

The central argument of this article is that the WTO is emerging as a major player in the field of global harmonization of national laws. Usually, when we think of institutions that deal with and promote harmonization of law, we think of organizations such as the UNIDROIT, UNCITRAL, or even...

In the paper it has been described as to what are the basic elements of competition law and World Trade Organisation. What is the relationship of competition law and World Trade Organisation and what is the present status of completion policy under World Trade Organisation. Finally, at present,...