This chapter addresses the impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)-like policies on third countries, looking at the case of Brazil, one of the most important emerging economies. We argue that TPP-like agreements are a way to bypass resistance to neoliberal ordering in the World Trade...

South-South trade and investment relations have grown considerably over the past years. This increase in economic transactions have been seen as a positive advancement towards the development of Southern countries economies, especially in what concerns a reduction of their dependence to central...

This paper addresses the impact of TPP-like policies on third countries, looking at the case of Brazil, one of the most important emerging economies. We argue that TPP-like agreements are a way to bypass resistance to neoliberal ordering in the WTO through the institution of alternative fora. We...

The goal of this article is to analyze the regulatory evolution of foreign investment in Brazil. In comparison with its peers, Brazil has enjoyed for years the reputation of a rebel regarding the regulation of foreign direct investment (FDI). In the 90s, when the world seemed to peacefully agree...

This note explains the new legal initiatives in the regulation of private corporate bribery in Brazil. Corruption is an endemic problem in many States, including ones with an emerging economy such as Brazil. The development and implementation of anticorruption policies necessarily goes through...

From Passive to Active Player in Two Decades This chapter examines two cases dealing with the interaction between WTO rules and domestic regulation in Brazil. By examining issues relating to intellectual property(IP) regulation and HIV policy, and to public arrangements for trade finance to the...

Brazil is widely touted as one of the most successful users of the dispute settlement system of the World Trade Organization (WTO) among all countries, developing and developed, in terms of both the quantity of cases brought and the cases' systemic implications. Brazil has been the fourth most...

Brazil is widely touted as one of the most successful users of the dispute-settlement system of the World Trade Organization (WTO) among all countries, developing and developed, in terms of both the quantity of cases brought and the cases’ systemic implications (e.g. Shaffer and Melendez...

Since the 1990s, participation in international trade has been affirmed as a tool for development. Therefore, countries like Brazil have intended so far to increase their international insertion through trade. Ever since, in those twenty years since then, Brazil has experienced a sequence of...

The paper departs from two cases dealing with the impacts of the global trade regime rules, implemented with the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its assembled agreements, in domestic regulation in Brazil, and the succeeding alternative development strategies undertaken by the...