The Lisbon Treaty emphasizes the EU's commitment to multilateralism, stating that it ‘shall seek to develop relations and build partnerships with [...] international, regional or global organisations' and to ‘promote multilateral solutions to common problems, in particular in the framework...

This contribution explores the interface between private law, global governance and the EU by focusing on the role that the EU plays, and should play, in relation to the use of forms of private law-based governance to make them suit public policy objectives at the European and global levels, on...

This working paper analyses the relationship between the European Union and the G20, with an emphasis on how the two bodies have impacted and shaped each other's agendas. Both entities mark, in very different ways, a changing world order in which states are cooperating ever more closely in order...

This paper addresses how Brazil's use of the WTO dispute settlement vis-à-vis the EU has an impact on trade relations between both parties. After describing their economic relationship, it is demonstrated that Brazil and the EU are not only successful and avid users of the dispute settlement...

In recent years, G20 has emerged as a relatively new, yet influential actor on the world stage which brings together the leaders of the twenty systemically most important economies. Its informality and flexible character warrant the use of the term ‘Informal International Lawmaking' with...