Introduction -- International sale of goods -- The sales contract -- Letters of credit -- Non-establishment forms of international business : agency and distributorships, technology transfer, contract manufacturing, and franchising -- Foreign direct investment -- Protecting intellectual property...

This paper provides the first-ever detailed analysis of the dispute resolution provisions contained in Japan's burgeoning international investment treaties (BITs and FTAs or EPAs). That development is also located in the context of Japan's inbound and outbound flows in foreign investment and the...

This article was not posted to SSRN when originally published. The first section of the article explores the potential of international commercial arbitration for helping to solve the "legal infrastructure" dilemma common to most developing economies: how to provide the legal institutions upon...

In the last twenty years, the international investment regime has attracted wide attention. Academics, policymakers and civil society have studied this regime using different analytical and normative frameworks, defending as much as criticizing international investment treaties and arbitration....