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...

This article explores the idea that the USDOC imposed anti-dumping duties on Vietnamese shrimp producers despite the fact that the surge of shrimp imports giving rise to the duties may have come from elsewhere in the developing world. We argue that Vietnam's shrimp exporters may have been...

This paper aims at taking stock of the criticism directed at the mechanism of international arbitration for settling disputes between international investors and host states. This paper also analyzes and describes the main attempts at reforming the arbitral model in response to those criticisms,...