Over the past years, impact assessment studies became a regular feature of trade and investment policymaking processes. These studies collect quantitative and qualitative information on the connexion between proposed policies and their likely positive or negative consequences. This chapter...

This chapter introduces the book 'Wine Law and Policy: From National Terroirs to a Global Market'. This 26-chapter volume brings together leading academics and practitioners to examine how wine law and policy have gradually moved from national terroirs to a global market. It is the first...

Amicus curiae is a developing feature of modern international investment arbitration. This chapter starts by describing how investment arbitration shifted from a confidentiality-based practice to a model that is more open to the participation of civil society. It then proceeds to discuss the...

Involvement in international cooperation platforms is one of China's key interests. One of the most important vectors of this policy concerns the promotion of high-level contacts between China and Portuguese-speaking countries, especially Angola and Mozambique, two of China's most important...

This article discusses how Portuguese-speaking countries may take advantage of the linguistic and cultural bond that unites them to create an arbitration market. Apart from Brazil and Portugal, arbitration is still almost nonexistent in the Portuguese-speaking world. This article discusses the...

The recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China is not always subject to the same legal rules. Foreign arbitral awards may be divided, according to their origin, into four different groups: awards made in a...

The trade between China and Africa has been growing tremendously in the last years. Mozambique has been emerging as an important market for China, interested in acquiring natural resources and selling products to the developing Mozambiquean market. The use of standard contracts plays an...

Modern-day supermarkets and hypermarkets have been introducing new market strategies that aim to simplify the traditional production and distribution system. Among these novelties is the surprising conversion of retailers into producers through the use of their own brands (‘private labels’)....