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After the Second Extension of the Transition Period for LDCs : How Can the WTO Gradually Integrate the Poorest Countries into TRIPS?

Hold, Arno - 2015

the latest TRIPS Council meeting of 11-12 June 2013, WTO Members have accepted this reality and granted LDCs a second … meaningfully integrate the poorest countries into the WTO system for the protection of intellectual property. The authors first … international organizations under the transitional arrangements in the TRIPS Agreement, subsequent WTO legislation and in particular …

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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) : Structure, Dispute Settlement and Case Law

Abbott, Frederick M. - 2015

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Public Country-by-Country Reporting : Corporate Law, Fiscal Law and the Principle of Unanimity

Schoen, Wolfgang - 2021

The European Union is in the process to establish “public country-by-country reporting” as a new and wide reaching obligation for multinationals to disclose tax-relevant numbers to a global audience, going beyond the OECD consensus which combined cross-border exchange of reports with...

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Of All Things Made in America Why are We Exporting the Penn Central Test?

Sanders, Anthony B. - 2011

Developing countries enter into bilateral investment treaties (BITs) in order to increase foreign direct investment (FDI). Ignoring this straight-forward fact has lead to a great deal of confusion in the assessment of BITs and their protections of regulatory takings. This Article addresses the...

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How Can the East African Community Guard Against Base Erosion and Profit Shifting While Working Towards Deeper Integration? Lessons from the European Union

Titus, Afton - 2021

The East African Community (EAC) is working towards establishing deeper integrationbetween its six partner states. The EAC partner states are: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda,South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. This paper analyses the lessons the EuropeanUnion may offer the EAC in guarding against base...

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Negotiation of Specific Commitments Under the GATS – A Legal Commentary on Article XIX GATS

Delimatsis, Panos - 2021

This contribution offers a comprehensive analysis of Art. XIX GATS, entitled “Negotiation of Specific Commitments”, which clarifies the manner in which negotiations under the GATS should proceed in order to progressively achieve higher levels of liberalization. This provision also identifies...

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Financial Services Trade in Special Economic Zones

Delimatsis, Panos - 2021

The mushrooming of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in recent years has led to a significant increase in the supply of attractive incentives for investors looking for opportunities abroad. SEZs are self-contained regimes, inextricably associated with investment promotion policies and domestic...

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Outsourcing Enforcement

LeClercq, Desiree - 2021

International organizations often outsource the enforcement of international law to their member states. The International Labor Organization (ILO), for instance, has neither its own adjudicative body nor an internal system of sanctions. Instead, the ILO’s maritime rules authorize states to...

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Analogies and Other Regimes of International Law

Paparinskis, Martins - 2013

The starting point of this chapter is that investment law partly borrows and partly diverges from pre-existing regimes of international law, and an interpreter of an investment protection treaty is required to determine the degree of similarity and difference so as to elaborate the ordinary...

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The Central America-EU Association Agreement : The EU's Trade Liberalization Policy and the WTO

Milutinović, Veljko - 2013

and reinforcement of WTO norms in the Agreement, accompanied by a limited “export” of the acquis communautaire. The study … create free trade areas beyond its borders, as well as the ever more complex relationship between the WTO and preferential …

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