In this Article, the Author discusses the Supreme Court's increased willingness in recent years to rely on the arbitral process for the resolution of securities disputes, and its willingness to enforce pre-dispute arbitration agreements under the Arbitration Act

The Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement) aims to find the right equilibrium between safeguarding each Member's interest in protecting its domestic market from products that threaten the life or health of humans, animals or plants and ensuring that these threats are...

Salini v. Morocco sparked one of the liveliest controversies in the dynamic field of international investment disputes. Salini held that the word investment in the ICSID Convention, although undefined, has an objective meaning that limits the ability of member states to submit disputes to ICSID...

This chapter discusses the nature of international dispute resolution and the obligation to settle disputes peacefully; the means by which international arbitral and judicial bodies are established; the impacts of new judicial and quasi-judicial bodies and tribunals upon international law; the...