Ttip, Investor–State Dispute Settlement and the Rule of Law

Trade Dispute Settlement Mechanisms: the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding in the Wake of the GATT

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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...

Dispute Settlement in Gatt

This Article describes briefly the way in which the system now operates and the major complaints that have been lodged against it. DISPUTE SETTLEMENT IN GATT

Modalities for investment protection and Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) in TTIP from a trade union perspective

The Evolution of GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement

Despite debuting to little fanfare under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), dispute settlement under the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been called the “backbone of the multilateral trading system.” Indeed, whereas GATT dispute settlement could scarcely have seemed more flawed, the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU) is widely touted for boosting confidence in an in...