Domestic regulatory decisions involving matters of human health or the environment are increasingly coming under scrutiny by international courts and tribunals. One of the latest examples concerns an Australian law that mandates the plain packaging of cigarettes and which is being challenged in...

National treatment is a basic component of both investment treaties and WTO Law. It guarantees a minimum standard of treatment of foreign investments in like circumstances and like products vis-à-vis their domestic counterparts. The focus of this essay will be to illustrate the point that...