Investment treaty tribunals have increasingly touched upon delicate issues, including for example access to water, public health or cultural polices. What standard of review have they adopted vis-à-vis state regulation aimed to protect fundamental interests and values? Can ideas regarding the...

A relatively new frontier for legal and policy analysis, technical barriers to trade (TBT’s) have become more common as traditional border barriers have been reduced. This comprehensive Handbook comprises original essays by eminent trade scholars exploring the implications of the...

This Handbook provides state-of-the-art analysis by leading authors on the links between the international trade regime and health and environment concerns – concerns that make up an increasing proportion of WTO dispute settlement. Research Handbook on Environment, Health and the WTO...

The globalization of the national food markets raises a number of difficult legal and political problems. In response, national governments have adopted a wide range of regulatory measures which are not only aimed at the protection of the environment and human health and safety but may also...

This article analyses the current general system of preferences of the EC in order to assess its conformity with the international obligations imposed by law of the World Trade Organization. The analysis is carried out in light of the recent WTO ruling, which found the old system of preferences...