Since the genesis of modern international investment law dating back to 1959 with the first bilateral investment treaty (BIT) signed between Pakistan and Germany and the emergence of international trade law in the form of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1994, which can be traced back to...

The proliferation of RTAs is a recognized feature of our time. While such agreements are permitted under Article XXIV of the GATT, this has not been without controversy and one aspect which remains unclear concerns the role decisions rendered by RTA dispute settlement bodies play in WTO cases....