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Could TPP seal the fate of geographical indications?

By Yves Renouf, IIT Visiting WTO Fellow This year, the Asia WTO Research Network Annual Conference, held in Hong Kong on 16-17 May, discussed the paradigm shift in international trade regulation that may result from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Dr Danny Friedmann, Research Associate in the Law Faculty of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, discussed […]

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Emerging EU Perspectives on Investor-State Dispute Settlement

Investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) is a mechanism that allows nationals of a party to a preferential trade and investment agreement (PTA) to take legal action against the counterparty host state for breaches of that agreement. While the modern construct of ISDS originated in the first bilateral investment treaty, between West Germany and Pakistan in 1959, […]

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