The author considers the principle in international law of the survival of accrued treaty rights and obligations upon the termination of a treaty, and analyses the precise scope of the exception to that principle set out in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. The scope of the exception...

This chapter will analyze arguments that the World Trade Organization (WTO) suffers from a 'democratic deficit', which casts doubt on the legitimacy and desirability of its rules and policies. First this chapter outlines teh two strands of this accusation of 'democratic deficit'. That is: 1....

Section I of this article includes a brief explanation of the WIPO treaty process. Section II gives an overview of how a patent system would function with the proposed changes. A chart, keyed to the draft treaty articles, is included to show the functional role of each provision. While this...

It is hoped that this rather comprehensive review, of patent law harmonization treaty work in process, will help organizations and individuals evaluate the current situation and prepare recommendations for their representatives, governmental and nongovernmental, who will participate in the final...

Financial responsibility of the EU resulting from investor-state arbitration is a politically sensitive topic that is currently shaping the emerging European international investment policy. What degree of protection can be granted to foreign investors in negotiations of future EU investment...

This response to Barton Beebe explores whether contemporary experience in Europe supports the central arguments advanced by Beebe in The Supressed Misappropriation Origins of Trademark Antidilution Law. The development of E.U. law is largely consistent with the idea that dilution law is in part...

Across national borders, voices against the Lisbon Treaty have argued that ratification of this document would bring about undesirable changes in the nature of the European Union and the way it operates. These voices believe that there is nothing wrong with the Union at present (‘if it ain’t...

This Article observes that the recent jurisprudence between international trade and investment law is converging in a way which the free market value and public interests are duly reconciled. The Article contends that such jurisprudential convergence is structurally preordained yet historically...

The European Union (EU) has supported the growing calls for the creation of an international legal framework to safeguard data protection rights. At the same time, it has worked to spread its data protection law to other regions, and recent judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union...

The conventional view of privacy, at least shared among privacy scholars, is that privacy is a rather culture — dependent issue and would be interpreted much differently in various jurisdictions. Though this is pretty true in the pre-digital age, the scenario may have been under considerable...