International trade and international investment agreements typically contain provisions requiring the parties to comply with good governance principles, such as procedural fairness and transparency. These provisions are increasingly the subject of disputes before international tribunals. The...

Chapters relating to regulatory coherence or cooperation are becoming significant features in new preferential trade agreements, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). While the existing literature has considered in detail the potential for harmonisation of standards or institutional...

Good faith is a doctrine that is readily accepted in legal systems. Yet, its distinct meaning has always been elusive. Ideas such as justice and equity are omnipresent in the law. Good faith is counted among such ideas. Their function has been to provide a corrective approach in situations where...

This volume weaves its way through a number of intersecting fields:chief among them public international law, international investment law, and international trade law. The focus of the analysis is on international investment law, and in particular the significance of the principle of good faith...

Australia became the first country to introduce standardised or plain packaging laws for tobacco products in 2011. However, they immediately came under direct and indirect challenge from the tobacco industry in various domestic and international fora, including at the World Trade Organization...

Australia’s introduction of plain packaging of cigarettes, which is a world first, has prompted international legal challenges under both the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the bilateral investment treaty between Australia and Hong Kong. These international legal challenges raise questions...