This note attempts to map the relevance of the emerging global law advocacy for the WTO. In this regard, it understands global law as an attempt to describe a growing decrease of the regulatory State and an ensuing increase of private rule-making. Global law intends to generate new thinking...

This paper attempts to shed some light to the relationship between new mechanisms to mitigate climate change and promote renewable energy generation, and the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). Trade in Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) is a market-based scheme that promotes energy...

This contribution provides a thorough analysis of Article III of the GATS concerning transparency. Drawing from case-law under the GATT as well as regional courts such as the European Court of Justice, the contribution aims to offer an interpretation of ambiguous concepts under this GATS provision

The multilateral legal framework governing trade in services -- Barriers to trade in services -- Domestic regulations and the GATS -- Creating a horizontal necessity test for services -- Transparency and domestic regulations in services