This paper examines Canada's accession the ICSID Convention. It also analyses the new bilateral investment treaty … entered into in 2006 between Canada and Peru. Issues discussed in this paper include the national treatment clause, the …

. The topic has become particularly controversial for Australia, given its ongoing Free Trade Agreement negotiations with … Japan – which is also considering joining negotiations underway among Australia and 10 other states (including the US) for … an expanded Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. Both Japan and Australia have almost always included ISA protections in …

This paper outlines the historical evolution of Australia's foreign direct investment (FDI) regulation generally, under …). This sets the stage for closer analysis of the policy and politics in Australia over treaty-based investor-state dispute …

As in some developing countries and more recently some developed countries worldwide and in the Asian region, Australia … Australia regarding its tobacco plain packaging legislation, in 2011 by Philip Morris Asia under an old BIT with Hong Kong …. However, Australia signed bilateral FTAs with Korea in 2014 and with China in 2015, including ISDS protections, prompting …

Australia is the first developed state to openly indicate that it will no longer agree to the adoption of arbitration … in Australia charged by the federal treasurer with the specific task of making recommendations on future trade and trade … recommendations for changes to ISA that may reasonably accommodate some perceived deficiencies in it, that redress some of Australia …