Intellectual Property Rights (“IPR”) can be regarded as an incentive for an inventor or an author, granted or recognized by a state. IPR are enforceable erga omnes within the boundaries of the state. Member States of the Paris Convention Union and other relevant conventions are expected to...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Cases -- Barriers to Negotiated Agreement -- Designing Dispute Resolution Systems -- Dispute Resolution in the Trading System -- Gaming the System -- Questions to Consider -- Ch 1 Food Fight: The United States, Europe, and...

While trade diplomats and scholars have expressed pride at the Uruguay Round achievement of more binding and more "law-oriented" dispute resolution, the same group and a variety of NGO and other commentators question the jurisdictional scope of dispute resolution. After all, should these small...

The literature on pretrial dispute settlement has studied the effect of first-order uncertainty on pre-trial settlement bargaining while assuming away any uncertainty about higher-order beliefs. We propose a settlement bargaining model in which one player receives a private and noisy signal of...

Compensation for adjudicators is generally considered as a core issue for judicial independence and for attracting good judges in the institutional design for courts. This paper examines compensation systems for adjudicators and dispute settlement administrators in investor-state dispute...