"The book examines trade agreements in the context of the current world economic crisis and the uncompleted World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Round of trade negotiations. With economies shrinking and protectionism on the rise, many fear a protracted global recession. This raises important...

The English version of this paper can be found at: "http://ssrn.com/abstract=1862686" http://ssrn.com/abstract=1862686.This chapter discusses the role and function of intellectual property chapters in Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). In the intellectual property context, FTAs are primarily used to...

A World Trade Organization (WTO) non-violation complaint is one where an agreement has not been breached, but the complainant alleges an expected benefit under the agreement has been abrogated. When the TRIPS Agreement came into force non-violation complaints were not available for TRIPS...

Many investment agreements include intellectual property (IP) in the definition of ‘covered investment' or ‘asset'. Until recently, what this means in practice has not been the centre of any significant dispute. Now some IP right holders are challenging domestic intellectual property law...