In this essay I seek answers to the following questions: why is it so difficult to resolve international trade disputes caused by domestic health risk regulation against a foreign food; why does the WTO legal system not work very well in solving the disputes; and what might be done to resolve the...

At its November 2008 meeting, the Committee on Legal Issues and International Labour Standards of the International Labour Organization's (ILO) Governing Body recommended that the International Labour Office prepare a study on improving the interpretation and implementation of international...

This paper provides the first-ever detailed analysis of the dispute resolution provisions contained in Japan's burgeoning international investment treaties (BITs and FTAs or EPAs). That development is also located in the context of Japan's inbound and outbound flows in foreign investment and the...

Depoliticisation of investment dispute settlement is considered to be one of the principal reasons and advantages of investor-State arbitrations. This paper considers the added value that the depoliticisation vocabulary brings to the resolution of modern challenges. First of all, equating...

Available at EJIL: Talk! (Blog of the European Journal of International Law)This is a short comment piece looking at the Annulment Committee's approach to interpretation. In particular it looks at how the interpretive tools of public international law are applied between the customary based norm...

This article explores and critically assesses the recent case law adjudicated by WTO panels and investment arbitral tribunals on cultural diversity related disputes. Adopting a socio-legal approach, this study focuses on the role that adjudicators have played in mapping the interactions between...

This paper discusses different techniques that could be applied by investment arbitral tribunals for the purpose of considering the obligations of the host State other than those arising under international investment agreements. It argues that current practice has shown that there is more than...