The rapid growth of international economic activity in the recent decades has brought forth a unique and formidable policy challenge. The challenge consists of reconciling two goals which sometimes compete directly with one another: creating a regime that allows economic interaction between...

The ‘business and human rights’ (BHR) field emerged amidst concerns during the last thirty years over the adequacy of national legal systems and institutions in addressing transnational human rights impacts of global market integration. BHR relies on transnational governance networks and...

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...

Significant numbers of multinational corporations ("MNCs") from the European Union ("EU") operate in the African, Caribbean and Pacific ("ACP") countries. The ACP countries are attractive operational bases because of the enormous availability of raw materials, low cost of labour, and favourable...

This article compares the “brave new” group-wide approach under Action 4 of the G20/OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting initiative to the fixed ratio alternative. The conclusion in this article is that the group-wide approach – which is not as novel as some assume – should be...

In her book, 'International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect,' Anne Orford compellingly demonstrates how the doctrine of responsibility to protect can be seen as providing a normative foundation for international authority already exercised through 'pre-existing practices of...

The paper argues that without a realistic understanding of criminal enterprise located against the commercial forces shaping contemporary Asian market contexts, then domestic, bi-lateral, regional and international control initiatives are not only likely to fail in their regulatory objectives,...

Much has been written about the fragmentation of transnational law, and the complexity that derives from the proliferation of normativities transcending the borders of the nation state. However, “globalization cannot exist without the state” (Harry W. Arthurs): the impact of transnational...

There have been comparatively few attempts to apply regulatory scholarship to the regulation of international sport. This is both surprising and regrettable. Surprising because sport inherently is a system of rules and thus, a regulatory system. Without rules there is no sport – just play. And...