Introduction -- Thesis detailed -- Transparency -- Concepts -- Goals and outcomes -- Membership -- More members? -- Logic -- Traditional agricultural market access -- Traditional industrial market access -- Non-traditional market access -- Exposing the forgotten chapter -- Copyright battles --...

What would international trade law, and particularly free trade agreements (FTAs) of the United States, look like if the dominant paradigm for their negotiation, drafting, implementation and enforcement shifted from economics to equal human dignity? First, the concept of equal human dignity has...

Free trade agreements (FTAs) are about far more than free trade. They are about national security. A trade deal may be ambitious in liberalizing or managing cross-border flows in goods, services, intellectual property (IP), and people. But, to argue for or against an FTA solely along the axis of...

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...

Building on the negotiation of U.S. bilateral investment treaties beginning in the early 1980s, U.S. free trade agreements incorporating specific host-state obligations to foreign investors and binding investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) have been a feature of U.S. trade and investment...

With the likely demise of the WTO dispute settlement mechanism as of December 11, 2019, the question arises as to whether regional trade agreement (RTA) dispute settlement mechanisms such as those in the recent US-Mexico-Canada Agreement can provide an acceptable alternative. The paper concludes...