Host states not infrequently find themselves responding to claims by investors under international investment agreements (‘IIAs') following a series of corporate steps to enable the claim to take place: restructuring of existing chains of corporate ownership; transfers of assets to new or...

This chapter assesses the role of good faith in managing parallel investment and trade disputes. It considers the jurisdictional and substantive overlap in trade and investment regimes that give rise to parallel disputes, and the normative considerations such as double remedies and conflicting...

This paper examines the recent WTO Panel Report in US- Clove Cigarettes within the context of the other two ongoing WTO disputes concerning US measures under the WTO's Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade. Appeals in two of the cases are underway and the third is anticipated, providing the...

This short paper examines the decision by a binational panel constituted under Article 1904(2) of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip In Coils From Mexico: Final Results of 2004/2005 Antidumping Review. In the course of clarifying the Chevron and...

This short note examines the 2010 decision by a panel constituted under Chapter 19 of the North American Free Trade Agreement in ‘Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip In Coils From Mexico: Final Results of 2004/2005 Antidumping Review’. The case concerns the application of the so-called...

This short note summarises the key features and implications of the decision of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization concerning Indonesia's complaint against the United States in connection with certain regulations regarding the use of additives and flavours in cigarettes