This paper argues that African Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) are flexible legal regimes. As flexible legal regimes, African RTAs provide a forum for cooperation on a whole range of objectives, including trade liberalization. They nestle or nest within these regimes an entire range of other...

This paper makes two primary arguments. First, that the increased resort to bilateral and regional trade agreements has taken a neo-liberal turn. As such bilateral and regional trade agreements are now a primary means through which greater investor protections; commodification of social...

This article provides new insight to regime shifting and regime complexes through one of the first detailed analysis of the regime shift in intellectual property law making and enforcement from the World Trade Organization to international investment law. Unlike prior cases of regime shifting...

This paper examines the Right to Development (RtD) in the context of the ongoing negotiations to finalize Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) that African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries are signing with the European Union (EU). These EPAs are being negotiated within the Cotonou...