English AbstractInternational Economic Law (IEL) is a fluid topic, and it has changed significantly over the course of years. It has never been a steady system and just as in all fields of the Law, IEL has been fluctuating in response of the social and economic circumstances of a determined...

Actors in international law are presumed to be states. Yet in the international economic law arena, the corporation is one of the most prominent non-state actors. Indeed, in some instances, the corporation may even be more influential than the state in some arenas of international economic law....

Over the last decade, international economic conflict has increased dramatically. To name only a few examples, the European Union has banned the import of products from deforested land and is poised to impose a duties on carbon-intensive imports; the United States has banned imports from China...

This essay examined some issues under international economic law from a human rights perspective. It appraised emerging issues in International Economic Law and discussed the nexus between international investment, state-investor agreement and human rights law. It conceptually clarified the...

This chapter discusses the role and functioning of private international law in commercial arbitration. It deals with the principal problems of conflict of laws and conflict of jurisdictions that arise in arbitration, the sources of private international law of arbitration, the role of the seat,...

This open access book examines the multiple intersections between national and international courts in the field of investment protection, and suggests possible modes for regulating future jurisdictional interactions between domestic courts and international tribunals. The current system of...

"This book, adopting a multidisciplinary and transregional approach, explores political, legal and economics issues pertaining to the making of the world's first multilateral agreement on investment facilitation in the WTO, including its potential impacts on global development and the reform of...

As the international economic law field developed and institutionalized during the 1990s and 2000s, interdisciplinary work on the subject proliferated. Many legal scholars turned to disciplinary methods beyond the traditional study of doctrine, constituting part of a “new legal realist” turn...

With the emergence of regional trade agreements, and the low level of multilateral cooperation, this has resulted in a complex legal structure of international economic law. In recent years, the World Trade Organization (“WTO”) faces a need to readapt its framework in order to achieve a...

International economic law is a peculiar field of research. It claims a universal character yet eschews engagement with most if not all the racialised features of global political economy. Imperialism, colonialism, and capitalism are widely ignored. Slavery, predation, and racism are excluded...

Fifty years ago, “international economic law” was not a commonly used expression, much less a recognized academic discipline. In 1970, a relatively small group of legal scholars worldwide including a few Canadians were engaged in disparate areas of research that touched on legal rules for...

We examine the potential role of international agreements on product standards through a stylized model where countries have different regulatory preferences and firms incur fixed costs of regulatory diversity. Overall, our analysis suggests that the common perception of regulatory agreements as...

List of Figures List of Contributors Table of International Treaties Preface 1 Introduction 1YOSHIZUMI TOJO2 Change in the International Economic Order: From the Perspective of Political Science KEISUKE IIDA3 The Impact of Regional Integration on Global Harmonisation of Private Law HIROO SONO4...

"The notion 'International Economic Law' encompasses a complex architecture of rules governing international economic relations and transboundary economic conduct by States, international organizations, and private actors. The term essentially refers to the regulation of cross-border...

This book addresses the challenges of datafication through the lens of international economic law. We are undergoing a wave of datafication practices. If such practices simply continue to evolve without being examined and repaired along the existing path of development, the same issues will...

"This open access book explains why Hong Kong adopts a triangular approach (combining unilateralism, bilateralism, and multilateralism) in its external trade and investment relations, describing how it applies the methods necessary to manage the triple-track strategy, and identifying the legal,...

As the framing chapter of a forthcoming volume on Artificial Intelligence and International Economic Law, this paper introduces three cross-cutting themes that illustrate the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and international economic law (IEL): disruption, regulation, and...

This paper identifies regulators’ increasing discretionary practices in the innovation sectors and examines whether international economic law is prepared for this supervisory evolution. As demonstrated by the three cases studied, very often technology laws themselves do not entail sufficient...

Sovereign rights in Exclusive economic zones and Continental shelves are functionally limited to the economic exploitation of these zones. Moreover, in the case of disputed maritime zones these sovereign rights are neither exclusive nor necessarily constant. Nevertheless, states are still...

A clash of economic models with the potential to disrupt international economic law is emerging in the wake of China’s increasing global presence. At the center of this clash of models is the claim that China introduces a ‘geoeconomic’ element to economic relations, while others follow a...

Pacta sunt servanda is a key principle in international law, which ensures order, stability and legal security in international relations. It renders commitments in international law generally binding unless a country decides to withdraw from them. This paper argues that the protection of market...

In their introductory essay to the 2021 Chicago Journal of International Law Symposium, Daniel Abebe, Adam Chilton, and Tom Ginsburg offer an account of “the rise of the social science approach to international law, explain the basics of the method, and advocate for its continued adoption.”...

Australia became the first country to introduce standardised or plain packaging laws for tobacco products in 2011. However, they immediately came under direct and indirect challenge from the tobacco industry in various domestic and international fora, including at the World Trade Organization...

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are transforming economies, societies, and geopolitics. Enabled by the exponential increase of data that is collected, transmitted, and processed transnationally, these changes have important implications for international economic law (IEL). This volume...