States sometimes restrict imports to address environmental concerns arising from conduct outside of their territory. Apart from the need to comply with World Trade Organization (WTO) law, these trade measures give rise to two jurisdictional issues: first, the importing State might be alleged to...

The proliferation of investment and intellectual property (IP) agreements recently has been accompanied by an increasing number and expanded scope of investment disputes. The agreements give rise to various issues that particularly affect developing countries. One of the issues that has recently...

India has a long history of economic linkages with the EU member states. In recent period, the volumes of Indo-EU trade both in case of merchandise products and services have considerably increased and a number of investment collaboration opportunities are emerging. Since 2007 the two sides are...

This article provides an in-depth analysis of the at times problematic interplay of regional and bilateral treaties regulating international economic law. Though academics have long debated whether regional and bilateral instruments threaten the hegemony of the multilateral trading system, no...

The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) was established in 1967 with one of its central purposes being the acceleration of economic growth in the region. As outlined in the ASEAN Vision 2020 charter, which was agreed to by ASEAN member countries in 1997, the centerpiece of this...

There is pressure from the developed world and indeed from within the under-developed/developing world to put in place IP regimes which are trade and investment friendly, and, primarily, based on western models of intellectual property rights, economic values and social organization. Pacific...

Data localization is a phenomenon that is of increasing global significance, as a growing number of countries impose data localization requirements on data controllers. This paper discusses data localization in the ASEAN context. It proposes a schema of data localization laws which comprises two...

This article examines the use of the terms juridical person and legal person in the China-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement from the English version perspective and the Chinese law perspective, and recommends consistency of terminology as well as replacing ambiguous terms with a simple statement....

The aim of this paper is to discuss new trends that have occurred in the policies of the EU and China towards foreign direct investment (FDI), to examine some implications of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) - which is currently being negotiated - for their bilateral...