Prof. Smit has expressed the view that eliminating party-appointed arbitrators would be beneficial for the integrity of the dispute settlement mechanism, especially in the investment field, because it would avoid any doubt of partiality and complacency. The author argues that these concerns can...

The international investment regime is changing, both as to substantive protections and ISDS restructuring. Are USMCA's changes a new "gold standard?" This Perspective doubts, since they are the result of various political pressures that have led to abolishing ISDS with Canada, while introducing...

Bringing together articles by some of the leading policy-makers, including previous WTO Director-Generals, practitioners, scholars of international trade law, government officials, international civil servants, members of the WTO Appellate Body, and judges from a number of international...

The Security Council's reaction to breaches of human rights in Qadhafi's Libya through Resolutions 1970 and 1973 in February - March 2011 included the adoption of targeted economic sanctions against president Qadhafi, members of his family, collaborators and Libyan state-owned entities - central...

The global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought as an immediate response the introduction of national restrictive measures to international trade favored by a progressive mistrust in the benefits of globalization and reliance on national solutions, yet incapable of resolving problems...