This article discusses the role war has played in shaping the rules of international investment law from the late nineteenth century. At the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, the move towards institutions, such as arbitration forums, and rules as an...

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 essay explores the impact of export-driven agricultural policies on the governance of natural capital. Many developing countries have adopted trade liberalization policies that encourage the intensive production of export commodities such as coffee, tea, flowers, and green beans. The...

This article considers reform for the World Trade Organization (WTO) primarily through a review of the book Behind the Scenes at the WTO: The Real World of Trade Negotiations/The Lesson of Cancun (Fatouma Jawara and Aileen Kwa), which exposes how the trade negotiation process makes it possible...

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...