Several free trade agreements extend their dispute settlement mechanisms to environmental obligations that ‘affect trade or investment’ between contracting parties. The recently concluded Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (‘CPTPP’) takes such attempt...

"This comparison of EU and WTO approaches to common trade-liberalisation challenges brings together eighteen authors from Europe and America. Together they explore fundamental legal issues, such as the role of general principles of law, the role of the judiciary in the development of law, the...