. The topic has become particularly controversial for Australia, given its ongoing Free Trade Agreement negotiations with … Japan – which is also considering joining negotiations underway among Australia and 10 other states (including the US) for … an expanded Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. Both Japan and Australia have almost always included ISA protections in …

This article discusses the Bilateral Investment Treaty (‘BIT') dispute between Australia and Philip Morris Asia Ltd … JT International SA v Commonwealth of Australia (‘the Constitutional challenge') and its implications for registered …

The relationship between the bilateral investment treaty (‘BIT') between Australia and China (1988) and the … unlikely to affect the interpretation or application of the ‘old style' Australia-China BIT, leaving the latter obligations in … place without textual nuance, and Australia in particular open to an ISDS claim on the basis of those broad obligations …

Australia's plain tobacco packaging laws, this paper considers the obligations applicable to NCD risk factor regulation under …

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