The mechanism of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) allows private foreign investors to challenge government measures before an ad hoc international arbitral tribunal. ISDS has been in existence for a long time. Yet recently this mechanism has proven very controversial, notably in the...

The EU’s weak promotional policy towards sustainability in its free trade arguments isup for revision. Labour and environmental standards need to be tightened. They weregiven a boost on balance by a remarkable panel ruling of January 2021 in the longstandingEU–Korea labour dispute....

This chapter argues that the arguments that have traditionally been advanced in favor of a nondiscriminatory application of safeguard measures are not convincing within the regime of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Safeguards Agreement. Furthermore, if selective safeguards were plainly...