The Security Council's reaction to breaches of human rights in Qadhafi's Libya through Resolutions 1970 and 1973 in February - March 2011 included the adoption of targeted economic sanctions against president Qadhafi, members of his family, collaborators and Libyan state-owned entities - central...

The global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought as an immediate response the introduction of national restrictive measures to international trade favored by a progressive mistrust in the benefits of globalization and reliance on national solutions, yet incapable of resolving problems...

The year 2019 was marked by a cataclysmic event for the WTO, the demise of the Appellate Body on 11 December 2019. At this date, as an effect by the protracted blockage by the United States of the reappointment process of AB members by the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB), the AB was left with just...

The subject matter of this paper is a central issue of growing concern in the area of legal regulation of international investments, namely how to ensure through treaty making and treaty application that the promotion and protection of foreign (direct) investment be beneficial for the recipient...

This review of WTO Panel and Appellate Body reports handed down in 2012 aims at covering the case law of the WTO through short but analytical examination of the most important final decisions of this year. The approach followed is that of reviewing all final decisions (Reports) of WTO Panels and...

This Article provides an inside from of the transition from the GATT to the WTO, including the basic features of the system and the role of the Appellate Body as a judicial body within the WTO, as well as the relations between judicial and political bodies. IT reflects on the first ten years of...

This Article contributes to the discussion about the development of international trade regulation of state interventionism by situating the tensions that exist about the future design of subsidies and state enterprises treaty regulation in the broader context of current systemic challenges to...