Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) have been proliferating for the last twenty years.

For example, the text of key investment protection clauses in the 1967 Draft Convention of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) was reproduced in hundreds subsequent IIAs and novel clauses on investor ...

Who in the European Union drives the process of pursuing bilateral trade negotiations?

This article introduces a novel database on investment treaties: called the Electronic Database of Investment Treaties (EDIT).

The paper discusses the impact of the enlargement of 2004 on the European Union (EU)'s common commercial policy.

"This brief compares the needs and goals of the trade and environment regimes, and discusses how insights from over sixty years of experience of the multilateral trading system might provide ideas for redesigning the architecture of the ...