Fossil-fuel subsidies are economically inefficient and harmful for the environment yet efforts to phase them out at the national and international levels have not been effective. The existing international legal framework is too weak and fragmented to support this process and an international...

This study aims at establishing the extent to which the world trade organisation has protected oil exports against unfair practices of trade. The main investigation also looks at the extent to which WTO Agreements improved the challenges faced by oil exporters. The WTO serves as the most...

Part I of this Comment describes the OPEC practices that form the basis of opponents’ complaints, including OPEC member countries’ efforts to influence the world oil market and help oil producers achieve certain rates of return, as well as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade8...

Can the WTO play a role in international financial regulation? This paper examines that question focusing specifically on the regulation of international derivatives, reasoning that if that complex and controversial category of instruments can be successfully regulated, international financial...

This article seeks to elaborate on the (seemingly) clash of goals between the WTO and the OPEC. This article thereafter elucidates possible arguments and outcomes if a (hypothetical) case were to be brought before the WTO by any of its member states, primarily based on GATT arts. XI, XX and XXI....

The World Trade Organization cannot deal comprehensively with restrictive export practices maintained by energy cartels such as the OPEC. The main reason for this is the absence of competition rules in the multilateral trading system. However, in spite of the fact that the WTO does not have...

With greater importance given to the climate change debate, energy has slowly attracted the complete attention of the whole world. The energy sector can be roughly divided into renewable energy, on the one hand, and fossil fuels, on the other. The former category is at the core of all the main...

Despite the United States withdrawing from the Trans-Pacic Partnership (TPP) Agreement, its template of rules remains highly relevant for future negotiations on international trade. This book helps to evaluate the legal provisions of this pact, its background and its possible evolutionary path....

TPP and market access for goods / Abhijit Das, Prajyna Paramita Barua and Dilfy Ann Philip -- Services coverage in TPP, TISA, and GATS : a comparative analysis and implications for India / Pralok Gupta -- IPR and new rule-making / Chandni Raina -- Conforming India's IPR laws to the TPP's IPR...