PluriCourts studies the various forms of dispute settlement under the World Trade Organization (WTO), as well as a range of bilateral and regional trade tribunals.
Book projects and special issues
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New members of the PluriCourts team
This semester PluriCourts welcomes five new employees - four PhD Fellows and one Postdoctoral Fellow.
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New members of the PluriCourts team
This semester PluriCourts welcomes five new employees - four PhD Fellows and one Postdoctoral Fellow.
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Jurisdiction of the WTO and investment tribunals to decide other public international law norms: balancing State consent and efficiency
PhD candidate Nicola Strain investigates whether the World Trade Organization Panels and Appellate Body and investor-state investment arbitrations have jurisdiction to decide questions of public international law when such issues arise in close connection with a dispute under the agreement conferring jurisdiction on the tribunal.
International trade courts and tribunals
We study the following trade courts and tribunals:
- Andean Court of Justice
- ASEAN Trade Dispute Settlement Mechanism
- COMESA Court of Justice
- Commonwealth of Independent States Economic Court
- Court of Justice of the European Union
- Court of Justice of the West African Economic and Monetary Union
- East African Court of Justice
Publications
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The Growing Tendency of Including Investment Chapters in PTAs
Article by Maksim Usynin and postdoctoral fellow Szilárd Gáspár-Szilágyi, published in Netherlands Yearbook of International Law.
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“No deal is better than a bad deal"? The fallacy of the WTO fall-back option as a post-Brexit safety net
Article by professor Freya Baetens, published in Common Market Law Review.