Trans-Pacific Partnership, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership …. The World Trade Organization (WTO) still has important assets: to convene/service meetings and to settle trade disputes …

December 2019 the World Trade Court ceased to be operational, as only Zhao Hong, the Chinese judge, remained in office. Faced …

The demand of industrialized countries for a multilateral agreement on investment to be negotiated under the roof of … foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries. By contrast, the opponents consider such an agreement to be biased in … favor of business interests and against the development objectives of Third World economies. It is for various reasons that …

states are disenfranchised from pursuing investment claims once they are lodged with ICSID. Is it the case that home states … simply stay home? This chapter examines instances where home states may have played a role in investment disputes between … political power, the ambit of investment arbitrator discretion is so capacious that it can be said of arbitrators, as it has …

This chapter assesses the role of good faith in managing parallel investment and trade disputes. It considers the … jurisdictional and substantive overlap in trade and investment regimes that give rise to parallel disputes, and the normative … rights, and this chapter evaluates the extent to which they may be deployed in trade and investment regimes. While finding …