"Since 1980, China has evolved from a poor and mostly rural society into one of the largest economies in the world. As it grew into a major industrial power, it demanded enormous amounts of steel for new factories and cities, copper for electronic wires, petroleum for cars and manufacturing...

Almost immediately after taking office, the Obama Administration charged the U.S. Department of State's Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy with reviewing the U.S. model bilateral investment treaty (BIT). The group established a subcommittee of business groups, labor and...

Meeting the ambitious goals of the Paris Agreement will require the United States and other major greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters to integrate climate change considerations into all relevant areas of economic policy. The United States, however, has conspicuously failed to do so with regard to...