This paper examines the compliance of preferential trade agreements in favour of developing countries including the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) scheme and the European Union's Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA)s with the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO). As a consequence...

This article argues from a commercial standpoint that the United Kingdom should include Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) in the new International Investment Agreements (IIAs) which it concludes following its departure from the European Union. Focusing on the procedure of ISDS rather than...

This article explores the practice of governments imposing domestic content based requirements known as ‘offsets' on suppliers in order to secure public procurement contracts. Known to cause economic harm and distortions in international trade, offsets are forbidden under the WTO's GPA and in...