This article examines the potential challenges for the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) through International Investment Agreements (IIAs) in light of the new generation of IIAs negotiated by the European Union (EU). It argues that it will be difficult in practice to succeed in...

This book offers different perspectives on China’s business and law. It aims to offer an introduction into both theoretical and practical aspects of China’s law on foreign related business affairs. This comprises economic and political background information, including China’s economic...

This book offers different perspectives on China?s business and law. It aims to offer an introduction into both theoretical and practical aspects of China?s law on foreign related business affairs. This comprises economic and political background information, including China?s economic evolution...

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, better known under the name “TTIP”, is a bilateral trade and investment agreement that has been negotiated between the European Union and the United States since 2013. The respective administrations on both sides of the Atlantic have...

This article is part of a wider project funded by the Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship and a forthcoming CUP monograph on Intellectual Property and the Human Rights of Companies in Europe. The project and book seek to retrace the genesis and rationale for the extension of human rights...

Part I. Politics and culture -- Chapter 1. Culture in External Relations: The EU and Its International Economic Agreements -- Chapter 2. Beyond Trade – The Politics of Trade Agreements and Interstate Competition: Geoeconomics as a Basis for EU and US Preferential Trade Agreements -- Chapter 3....

FDI is above all significant because it is both a source of capital and a provider of knowledge about production techniques. IPRs, granted by patents, copyrights, trademarks, etc., perform a significant role in promoting innovation and sustaining economic growth. There is a complementarity of...