How and why do global trade rules evolve? When the EU revised the investment chapter of its recent trade deal with Canada it was widely believed that the amendments were motivated by concern over the design of another agreement: the yet-to-be-completed Transatlantic Trade and Investment...

The global financial crisis triggered a vast number of new laws and regulations at international level, including initiatives that can be classified as "soft law". The legitimacy and efficacy of these new norms are subject to intensive academic and political debates. At the same time, soft law...

The International Task Force on Global Public Goods has defined global public goods as, “issues that are broadly conceived as important to the international community, that for the most part cannot or will not be adequately addressed by individual countries acting alone and that are defined...