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Enhancing Colombia and China's Economic Integration : International Legal Instruments

Hoyos, Juan - 2012

There are several mechanisms that countries recur to further integrate their economies. Such mechanisms take normally the form of international agreements, some to cooperate, others to promote and protect investments and most of them to liberalize trade. This paper reviews the international...

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Transnational Private Regulation in Professional Services

Delimatsis, Panos - 2012

The objective of this study is to map the landscape of transnational private regulation (TPR) in professional services. Transnational private regulation in professional services examines the emerging body of rules created by private actors in a manner that leapfrogs national borders. Driven by...

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The History and Growth of the European Union : Part One

Folsom, Ralph - 2012

Whither the European Union? Whither the EURO? These questions have taken on heightened, global significance in the wake of the EURO-zone financial crisis that emerged in 2010 and remains ongoing. Answers, or at least approaches to answers, are important not only to bailing out Greece, Ireland...

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Litigation Cost Allocation Rules, Judicial Detection Skill, and the Propensity to International Trade

Schmidtchen, Dieter - 2012

The paper analyzes the effects of different litigation cost allocation rules, detection skill of judges (judicial errors), and the mode of enforcement of foreign judgments on the home bias in trade and sheds a new light on the so-called border-effect puzzle. In our model the border effect or...

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Investment Treaties and the Globalisation of State Capitalism : Opportunities and Constraints for Host States

Skovgaard Poulsen, Lauge N. - 2012

The growing stock of foreign investments by sovereign wealth funds and state-owned enterprises poses regulatory challenges to the international investment regime. With arbitrators seemingly keen on expanding the jurisdictional scope of investment treaty arbitration to cover a wide range of...

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Universalizing the Right to Water in Brazil : Liberalization, Regulation and Public Policies in Human Rights

Mirandola, Carlos Mauricio - 2013

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The Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health and the Contradictory Trend in Bilateral and Regional Free Trade Agreements

Abbott, Frederick M. - 2013

WTO Agreement, GATT Article XXIV, TRIPS Article 4(d) and free trade agreements. Theses rules affect the lives and health …In the Doha Declaration WTO Members committed themselves to implementing and interpreting the TRIPS Agreement to allow … [TRIPS] Agreement can and should be interpreted and implemented in a manner supportive of WTO Members' right to protect …

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Investment Treaty Arbitration and the (New) Law of State Responsibility

Paparinskis, Martins - 2014

The case study of investment treaty arbitration provides an opportunity to examine whether and how the invocation of responsibility by a non-state actor has affected secondary rules of state responsibility. This article takes the analytical perspective of investors, capable of being perceived as...

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Trade Policy Review and Dispute Settlement at the WTO

Froese, Marc D. - 2014

The Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM) received much scholarly attention when it was first established in 1989, but has been overshadowed of late by dispute settlement processes. This paper examines the relationship between barriers to trade that are flagged by the World Trade Organization's...

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China and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership

Leal-Arcas, Rafael - 2013

In the context of a current global economic crisis and an unfinished World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Round … impact on the international trading system, the debate about regionalism and multilateralism, and the policy of the WTO …

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