Regional Integration Through Dispute Settlement: The European Union Experience

Analyzing the European Union citizenship through feminist perspectives

The European Union has aspired to create an “ever closer union” among its people since the articulation of the European Union citizenship has been an important instrument towards it. However, attempts at creating this “ever closer union” have focused on homogenizing European citizens as a single entity without taking into account the heterogeneous differentials among such citizens. Gender diffe...

Dispute Settlement at the Wto: the Developing Country experience

The World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement mechanism can be critical for developing countries seeking to defend their trade rights and development interests. The system has been essential for challenging harmful subsidy programs, eliminating unfair anti-dumping duties and ensuring that least developed countries (LDC) can pursue strategies to diversify trade in order to create new emp...

Online Dispute Resolution for Consumers in the European Union

Current Models of Investor State Dispute Settlement Are Bad for Health: The European Union Could Offer an Alternative

In this commentary, we endorse concerns about the health impact of the trans-pacific partnership (TPP), paying particular attention to its mechanisms for investor state dispute settlement. We then describe the different, judge-led approach being advocated by the European Commission team negotiating the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, arguing that, while not perfect, it offers s...

Dispute Settlement Mechanisms

Over the last couple of decades, there has been a growing awareness in academic and policymaking circles regarding the importance of institutions for economic development. Institutions constitute the rules of the game in a society or, more precisely, the restrictions designed by members of a society to influence human interaction. Any transformation affecting these rules may clearly have a dire...