This paper provides a contextual and historical backdrop for this special edition by exploring cross-sectoral debates about the potential impacts of the GATS negotiations and their place within the broader political economy of North-South relations. It traces the historical background to the...

This academic work address about the Chilean state owned company (CODELCO) and how it deals with the recommendations of OECD in order to define determined corporate governance. The core of this work is based on establishing a critic analysis to these guidelines. In the last decades, state owned...

In July 1994 an Agreement relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea was adopted by the UN General Assembly. This Agreement, the outcome of Informal Consultations sponsored by the UN Secretary-General, in effect substantially amends the regime of seabed...

Following the election of members of the new International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in August 1996, this article outlines the provision made for the settlement of disputes under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and related instruments against the background of the earlier regime of...