This contribution explores the interface between private law, global governance and the EU by focusing on the role that the EU plays, and should play, in relation to the use of forms of private law-based governance to make them suit public policy objectives at the European and global levels, on...

This paper addresses how Brazil's use of the WTO dispute settlement vis-à-vis the EU has an impact on trade relations between both parties. After describing their economic relationship, it is demonstrated that Brazil and the EU are not only successful and avid users of the dispute settlement...

In recent years, G20 has emerged as a relatively new, yet influential actor on the world stage which brings together the leaders of the twenty systemically most important economies. Its informality and flexible character warrant the use of the term ‘Informal International Lawmaking' with...