From a standard rational choice perspective, the choice architecture of an international trade in services liberalization scheme as structured around either positive or negative listing should not have any appreciable effect on the depth and breadth of commitment. In contrast, behavioral...

The international regulation of anti-dumping is truly a ‘grey zone’ in the sense that it sanctions legalized yet highly discretionary trade protectionism. However, to portray anti-dumping laws and practices as a grey zone of governance is something entirely different, for that might imply...

This paper asks whether the model of international labour migration regulation found in the WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) Mode 4 conforms to principles of global justice. To answer this question on the backdrop of the complex set of policy considerations relating to labour...

The arcane distinction between rules, exceptions and autonomous rights has troubled WTO dispute settlement since its earliest days, primarily with respect to procedural burden-of-proof questions. Yet in its report, the EC-Biotech panel relied on a techno-textual understanding of this distinction...

תקציר בעברית: בעשור האחרון מתחזקות מגמות במשפט הבינלאומי היוצאות להסדיר את המרחב התרבותי הגלובאלי בכללותו ואת התרבות של מסורות קולינאריות בפרט. מסגרות אלה...

תקציר בעברית: מערך הסכמי הגנת ההשקעות הבינלאומיות מהווה ערוץ חשוב של השפעת הגלובליזציה המשפטית על מדיניות ציבורית בישראל ובעולם. המדובר באלפי אמנות, רובן...

The Belt and Road Initiative, formerly known as the "New Silk Road" is a central part of the People's Republic of China (PRC)'s 13th 5-year plan, an ambitious program of infrastructure project finance in 65 countries, to the tune of 1 Trillion USD invested over 20 years. Geo-politically, this...

This article is a contribution to a symposium discussing Prof. Gregory Shaffer's recent article, "Retooling Trade Agreements for Social Inclusion" (1 U. ILL. L. REV. 1 (2019). Prof. Shaffer argues that international trade law and institutions, primarily the World Trade Organization, have been...

The European Union's policies towards the states on its new, post-2004 enlargement, external borders (the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Cotonou project) present complementary yet competing tendencies: the establishment of Pax Mercatoria (the model historically developed in and by the EC...