Journal of International Trade Law and Policy: Volume 20 Issue 2

Developing a novel index to evaluate labour chapters in trade agreements: Canada’s ambition–enforceability compromise

Hanna Williams, Meredith B. Lilly

Lack of progress advancing labour provisions in multilateral trade instruments has led some countries to develop their own labour chapters in bilateral and plurilateral trade…

Special and differential treatment in the WTO: framing differential treatment to achieve (real) development

Aniekan Ukpe, Sangeeta Khorana

Special and differential treatment (SDT) in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has failed to integrate developing countries into the international trading system, as contemplated…

Identifying export opportunities for China in the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ group of countries: a decision support model approach

Martin Cameron, Ludo Juul Cuyvers, Dahai Fu, Wilma Viviers

This paper aims to identify China’s realistic export opportunities (REOs) among the “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI) group of countries.

Investment treaties and national sovereignty: latest developments

Martin Karas, Katarína Brocková

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it identifies the latest trends in investment treaty making and determines the degree to which these trends affect the regulatory…