The large volume of literature and commentary on resolution of investor-state disputes tends to focus primarily on the rights of the foreign investor and the process through which the investor may protect her interest through investor-state arbitration, either at the World Bank’s ICSID or in...

The WTO’s Dispute Settlement Mechanism (DSM) is being emasculated by the United States. For almost a year, the United States had blocked appointment or reappointment of Appellate Body (AB) Members, reducing the number of sitting AB Members to four, based on various procedural and substantive...

This article focuses on the frustrating, time-consuming and difficult legal and political process through which the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is being put into force in the European Union. The CETA approach includes approval of the agreements initially by the EU...

During the past thirty years, Vietnam has evolved from a closed, Communist/socialist state with little respect for the rule of law - or lawyers - to a still-socialist state but one which is increasingly driven by market forces, global competition, and development of a well-functioning and...

After ten years the Doha Development Round is effectively dead, at least in its present form. A broadly comprehensive round of trade negotiations reminiscent of Doha or the Uruguay Round will not likely be attempted again in the foreseeable future. While some have suggested that Doha's demise...