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...

This paper addresses the impact of TPP-like policies on third countries, looking at the case of Brazil, one of the most important emerging economies. We argue that TPP-like agreements are a way to bypass resistance to neoliberal ordering in the WTO through the institution of alternative fora. We...

South-South trade and investment relations have grown considerably over the past years. This increase in economic transactions have been seen as a positive advancement towards the development of Southern countries economies, especially in what concerns a reduction of their dependence to central...

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...

Evaluations about the post-2008 financial crisis scenario emphasized the increasing economic importance of Southern countries' trade and investment relations. In this debate, it is yet unclear how Southern countries are regulating their economic relations to cope with these fundamental changes....

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...

This book argues that the current reform in investment regulation is part of a broader attempt to transform the international economic order. Countries in the North and South are currently rethinking how economic order ought to be constituted in order to advance their national interests and...