Australia, China, and ChAFTA : punching above both belt and weight / Colin B Picker -- An analytical introduction to ChAFTA: features and challenges / Heng Wang -- A comparative context : ensuring Australian and Chinese legal systems coexist to facilitate harmonious and trustworthy trade /...

This essay examines the evolution of the Article XX General Exceptions provision of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (“GATT 1994”) from its drafting history in 1946, to increasingly narrow interpretations by the GATT panels, and ultimately to the more expansive interpretations by...

International arbitration and Law & Economics (L&E) have two things in common. They have both been on the rise in the last decades; and they are both hotly contested and discussed in all their facets. 15 years ago, it was lamented that L&E had neglected (international) arbitration to large...

The European Union's policies towards the states on its new, post-2004 enlargement, external borders (the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Cotonou project) present complementary yet competing tendencies: the establishment of Pax Mercatoria (the model historically developed in and by the EC...

This article introduces the concept of "international development disputes". It argues that despite the well-acknowledged vagueness of 'development' as an operative legal concept, there exists a set of international legal differences (primarily international economic disputes, but not...