Climate change is reshaping international law as we speak. In the past, it might have been possible to separate aspects of international law into different "boxes." In the current state of affairs, however, one can observe environment and health policies impacting directly on the trade agenda...

Current developments in international law witness an increasing number of disputes arising out of conflicting societal values, such as the promotion of economic development versus the protection of health and the environment. Irrespective of its precise normative content, sustainable...

Brazil is currently immersed in the project of building a new common market, known as MERCOSUR, with its neighbours Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay. That project is largely based on the assumption that increased regional trade and harmonization of environmental standards will be beneficial for...

This note explains the new legal initiatives in the regulation of private corporate bribery in Brazil. Corruption is an endemic problem in many States, including ones with an emerging economy such as Brazil. The development and implementation of anticorruption policies necessarily goes through...

Since the 1990s, participation in international trade has been affirmed as a tool for development. Therefore, countries like Brazil have intended so far to increase their international insertion through trade. Ever since, in those twenty years since then, Brazil has experienced a sequence of...

The paper departs from two cases dealing with the impacts of the global trade regime rules, implemented with the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its assembled agreements, in domestic regulation in Brazil, and the succeeding alternative development strategies undertaken by the...

The WTO Dispute Settlement System (WTO/DSS) has been a landmark in furthering the autonomy and institutionalization of the multilateral trade system. This article discusses a frequently ignored function of the WTO/DSS: its adjudicatory enforcement in regard to another trade regime, namely the...

Since the 1990s, participation in international trade has been affirmed as a tool for development. Therefore, countries like Brazil have intended so far to increase their international insertion through trade. Ever since, in those twenty years since then, Brazil has experienced a sequence of...

This publication presents selected papers of the 3rd Conference of the Post Graduate and Early Professionals and Academics Network of the Society of International Economic Law (PEPA Network), which took place at Direito GV in São Paulo (Brazil), 24-25 April 2014

What might lie behind a heterodox approach to legal disputes arising in the struggle for energy resources? Here, the State parties turn to bargained solutions, instead of reaching for remedies available in contracts and in investment treaties, as suggested by the mainstream literature on rule of...