The paper examines the legality under international law of the EU's trade agreements covering occupied territories by focusing on two case-studies: Palestine and Western Sahara. Two main questions will be examined: first, is the EU's practice in conformity with its obligations under...

The paper examines the legality under international law of the EU's trade agreements covering occupied territories by focusing on two case-studies: Palestine and Western Sahara. Two main questions will be examined: first, is the EU's practice in conformity with its obligations under...

"This book tells a new, unconventional story of the nexus between international trade and environmental law - a story in which the keyword is synergy rather than conflict, and where the trade regime was always meant for something greater than simply trade liberalization. This book intends to...

Judicial acts of states are becoming increasingly subjected to international investment claims. This book focuses on distinctive particularities of these claims. Although there are no special responsibility regimes for different functions of the state, the application of investment treaty...

Introduction -- Thesis detailed -- Transparency -- Concepts -- Goals and outcomes -- Membership -- More members? -- Logic -- Traditional agricultural market access -- Traditional industrial market access -- Non-traditional market access -- Exposing the forgotten chapter -- Copyright battles --...

Compensation for adjudicators is generally considered as a core issue for judicial independence and for attracting good judges in the institutional design for courts. This paper examines compensation systems for adjudicators and dispute settlement administrators in investor-state dispute...

Empirical research on the impact of investment treaties has focused almost exclusively on their effect on foreign investment, with mixed results. Yet, another important promise of the treaties has been ignored altogether. Architects of the investment treaty regime, as well as many current...