My talk today begins with a brief overview of President Trump’s tariff policies, followed by examining various aspects and implications his tariff-linked investment approach. We will look together at what developments we may anticipate in the near…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming work across the globe, challenging governments to address job displacement through domestic and trade-related measures. This Essay argues that WTO rules lack the coherence and flexibility needed to…
National Implementation of International Economic Law: Taiwan
This article examines the relationship between transparency and legitimacy in investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) jurisprudence, particularly in the context of Third-Party Funding (TPF). The initial section of the paper scrutinizes transparency…
The Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA) aims to stimulate economic growth by curbing legal and judicial insecurity. To this end, OHADA has already served as a framework for the development and adoption of eleven…
Financial and economic crises, pandemics, border closures, supply chain disrup-tions, wars, political uncertainty have fundamentally changed the way governments view economic development. Broad-based government interventions
are now the order of the…
Cross-border data transfer is a controversial topic in modern digital trade law due to the different positions of major economies. While several efforts to harmonize cross-border data transfer laws have been made in the multilateral or regional…
The transition to the digital economy poses significant challenges to international investment law, which was originally designed for the traditional economy. Current international investment agreements often fail to address developments in the…
The Indo-Pacific has become a key site for legal responses to the global digital economy. While the region includes several advanced digital markets, major differences in infrastructure and regulatory capacity remain. Governments are introducing…