This paper explores how regulatory responses to emerging IP issues in digital trade may develop at the international level and in particular how existing mechanisms might influence the chances of developing internationally agreed rules in this regard. The primacy of state sovereignty in...

This paper studies the differences between traditional financial intermediaries (commercial banks, saving banks and credit cooperatives) and ethical banks that focus on positive social and ethical values. The credit crisis calls into question the functionality and good performance of traditional...

The WTO panel decision upholding Australia's tobacco plain packaging (TPP) measures is the culmination of a series of national and international legal challenges brought against Australia's tobacco control measures since their introduction in 2011. In what has been called "one of the most highly...