This paper highlights that the question of policy space with respect to public support to electricity cannot be answered by clinically isolating legal rules from their factual background - constituted of technological innovations, market developments and the broader political economy. Various...

This article reviews the Appellate Body Report in the Ukraine – Ammonium Nitrate dispute that focused on the impact of Russia’s dual pricing in the natural gas market on the ammonium nitrate market. Interpreting the WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement (‘ADA’), the Appellate Body rejected the...

This article reviews the Appellate Body decision in the implementation phase of the EC – Aircraft dispute. Focusing on some of the key findings, we assess whether they are legally and economically correct. We conclude that a) though still unclear, the test for establishing de facto contingency...

Through the use of the recent litigation on renewable energy subsidies in the World Trade Organization (‘WTO’) as case-study, this paper highlights the importance of methodology in legal analysis and, in particular, of integrity, coherence and legitimacy. Reference is made to those cases...