Investor-State dispute settlement mechanisms (ISDS) are an important component of most International Investment Agreements (IIAs) and have significant influence on how disputes between States and investors are resolved.<p> This statistical survey of a large sample of 1,660 bilateral investment...</p>

Despite the looming expiration of the extended transition period under Article 66.1 of the Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) on 1 July 2013, most least-developed countries (LDCs) have not made significant progress in implementing the TRIPS Agreement. WTO...

The implementation of patent law in the emerging market countries is having an impact on the international patent system. First, it is apparent that the principal emerging market economies are not strictly adhering to the patent regimen of the USA, Europe and Japan, but are instead adapting...

This Guide seeks to provide information helpful to countries making policy decisions with respect to the Pillar Two Global Anti-Base Erosion (GloBE) minimum tax proposal. The GloBE initiative creates a pool of potential tax revenues on in-scope corporate multinationals’ incomes to be collected...

The US Section 301 trade actions against DSTs were strikingly effective in the short term. Section 301, however, is ill suited as a process for challenging taxes of other countries and lacks legitimacy. The sovereign power to tax is very broad and there is insufficient international agreement on...

This paper - written for an edited volume addressing how law and policy can keep pace with highly dynamic scientific and technological innovation - proposes an international framework to coordinate and facilitate national responses to innovations that may create significant risks or pose social,...

Transnational regulations, often established by private bodies, play a large and important role in the international political economy. This paper makes two contributions to the literature on transnational regulation. First, governments and international organization often legitimate the...

The world economy is evolving towards multipolar globalization, and China has become a new pole of economic development. Ukraine, like other countries, is looking for ways to cooperate with China in the field of trade and investment. China, for its part, offers a model of cooperation within the...

The world economy is evolving towards multipolar globalization, and China has become a new pole of economic development. Ukraine, like other countries, is looking for ways to cooperate with China in the field of trade and investment. China, for its part, offers a model of cooperation within the...

This paper will also be published in the European Journal of Risk Regulation, in the first issue of 2011. With increasing reliance by suppliers and consumers of goods and services on the internet as a means of doing business there has been a rise in cross-border trade. Inevitably this has led to...