"The international legal framework for valuing the carbon stored in forests, known as 'Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation' (REDD+), will have a major impact on indigenous peoples and forest communities. The REDD+ regime contains many assumptions about the identity,...

The lengthy WTO Panel report, recently issued in the EC-Biotech dispute, contains many noteworthy findings. Perhaps the most extraordinary and potentially far-reaching are those regarding the scope of the SPS Agreement. This Agreement has been the focus of much attention because of the...

The International Law Association's Committee on the Legal Principles Relating to Climate Change was established in 2008. The Committee has Professor Shinya Murase, Sophia University, as its Chair, Professor Lavanya Rajamani, Centre for Policy Research, as its Rapporteur, and over 30 of the...