This paper will reflect on the burgeoning ‘trade and climate change’ scholarship in the context of previous linkage debates – particularly the trade and environment/human rights/development literature. It will focus on the extent to which unilateral measures adopted by States to fight...

This article analyzes the extent to which the Appellate Body and WTO panels compare the authentic texts in their examination of the WTO Agreements and the extent to which the parties themselves do so in their arguments. The texts of the WTO Agreements are authentic in English, French and...

While most economists are in agreement that China’s currency is undervalued, economists are less certain as to the effect of the undervaluation. Despite the equivocal data, critics of China’s regime claim that the undervaluation leads to cheaper, and therefore increased exported goods, while...

This article posits that the creation and development of international regulatory regimes has so far required a choice between rulemaking and adjudication. Regulators that wish to make policy broadly and prospectively have done so informally and through rules. More elaborate and powerful...

China's exchange rate regime has been an international concern for years, and is possibly one of the chief reasons for causing a trade war between the United States and China. Critics have alleged that the current Chinese RMB practices add unfair advantages to Chinese exports, and are hence a...

This paper explores the European Union (EU) regulatory regime for Traditional Chinese Médicine and its legal, cultural, economic , and international trade implications. The controversial Directive on Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products (THMPD) amended the European Community Code for medicinal...

China is appraised to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory, environmental and investment-related issues will likely restrain its scope. China's capacity to successfully face these hurdles and produce commercial shale gas will have a...

Trade is a tool to increase human welfare and development, but is increasingly being harnessed also to achieve broad environmental and social sustainability. This paper evaluates the modern relationship between trade and distribution of wealth, on the one hand, and trade and sustainable...

The current crisis engulfing the multilateral trading system has crystalized in the dispute over the (re-)appointment of the members of the World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body. While the legislative arm of the organization has never lived up to its potential, its dispute settlement arm...

Few fields of international law have developed as dramatically as international intellectual property law. Proliferating international agreements on IP law (and aspects thereof) and in particular the inclusion of IP law in trade agreements have brought about ever-higher standards of IP...