Can countries fulfill their obligations under international environmental agreements in the presence of international investment agreements or vice versa? This Perspective offers recommendations for arbitrators and countries to harmonize their climate goals and investment obligations by moving...

List of Abbrevations -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword: Apéritif -- Christopher Heath -- 1 An Introduction to Wine Regulation in a Globalized Market -- Prospects and Limits of Wine Governance -- Julien Chaisse, Fernando Dias Simões, and Danny Friedmann -- PART 1 --...

This chapter explores the phenomenon of state-controlled enterprises (SCEs) by assessing, in the first part, the emergence of state capitalism from a political-economic perspective. In the second part, the chapter examines the concept of SCE and the panoply of SCEs’ structures with a diversity...

This article presents a critical assessment of how blockchain technology is disrupting the monetisation of litigation claims through tokenization – and consequently further shaking up a revolutionary area in litigation financing. The significance in litigation financing is chiefly because...

International Economic Law and the Challenges of the Free Zones' is of assistance to the future development of economic zones around the world, offering a critical and comprehensive analysis of the dynamic special economic zone (SEZ) phenomenon across legal, economic, investment, regulatory and...

There are many permanent regional dispute settlement mechanisms (DSM) in other regions. But in the Asia-Pacific region, there has not be a permanent DSM to resolve their regional disputes. We consider that the Asia-Pacific region is uniquely positioned to take global leadership in providing...

This article makes a major contribution to the emerging Belt and Road Initiative scholarship (and international economic law) by highlighting that (i)China’s existing investment treaty network along the Belt and Road is dated, (ii) many or most of those treaties include Most Favored Nation...