Investment treaty law – which is scattered over 3 000 international investment agreements adopted over a period of 50 years – is a crucial but complex basis for regulating international investment flows. Investment treaties are often thought to be silent on investors’ responsibilities to...

As an element of its "value-based trade policy" the European Union has institutionalised civil society participation in the context of its "New Generation Free Trade Agreements" less than ten years ago. In all recent trade agreements with partner countries, the EU includes a chapter on Trade and...

This paper examines the claim that we have passed from the ‘Age of Neoliberalism' to the ‘Age of Populism'. It examines the concept of populism and it explores the linkages between populism and the regulation of personal work relations in the UK and Europe, arguing that precarious work...