The rise of the regulatory state in the latter half of the 20th century is reflected in the text of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreements and specifically its transparency related obligations. The oldest transparency and good governance obligation of the WTO is Article X of General...

This article explores the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in promoting good governance while placing WTO within the larger framework of the ongoing global anti-corruption movement. Governmental policies aimed at fighting corruption are part of the good governance criteria set forth by...

Australia, China, and ChAFTA : punching above both belt and weight / Colin B Picker -- An analytical introduction to ChAFTA: features and challenges / Heng Wang -- A comparative context : ensuring Australian and Chinese legal systems coexist to facilitate harmonious and trustworthy trade /...

This peer-reviewed Article applies the ever more sophisticated Mixed Jurisdiction scholarship to a comparative law analysis of international law. In so doing, the Article shows both that this emerging scholarship has vitality outside its traditional jurisdictions as well as provides useful...

As a new international economic policy, microtrade will face a whole host of issues, including potential legal cultural obstacles. Those legal cultural issues will arise as a result of the different and sometimes conflicting legal cultures of the varied participants within the different fora and...

To the extent that international trade and development policy employs legal methods, institutions and participants, there is a need to take into account the role of legal culture. There are many different legal cultures in the world, including the widely found common and civil law traditions, as...