International Economic Dispute Settlement

Introduction; 1. International economic dispute settlement: demise or transformation? Manfred Elsig, Rodrigo Polanco and Peter van den Bossche; 2. Contracting v. multilateralism in global economic governance: before, during and after the WTO Karen J. Alter; Part I. Current challenges in international trade dispute settlement: 3. Sausage-making at the WTO: looking behind the curtain of dispute settlement procedures over time Krzysztof Pelc; 4. Operationalising MPIA appeal arbitrations: opportunities and challenges Kholofelo Kugler; 5. Re-designing the mediation mechanism in future WTO dispute settlement governance Tetyana Payosova; 6. Adjudication vs. 'Frontier Justice' in international economic law disputes: the trump administration's push for unilateralism in trade enforcement Simon Lester and Huan Zhu; 7. WTO dispute settlement: 'Will of the Strongest' or 'Rule of Law'? attempting to view recent U.S. actions through the proper lens Sean Stacy; Part II. Current challenges in international investment dispute settlement: 8. A world without (Treaty-Based) ISDS?: costs and benefits Jonathan Bonnitcha, Lauge Poulsen and Jason Yackee; 9. Investment dispute settlement a la Carte: a proposal for the reform of investor-state dispute settlement Stephan Schill and Geraldo Vidigal; 10. Evidence-guided reform: surveying the empirical research on arbitrator bias and diversity in investor-state arbitration Daniel Behn, Malcolm Langford, Laura Letourneau-Tremblay and Runar Hilleren Lie; Part III. New issue areas and dispute settlement: 11. The politics of renewables: lessons for international economic dispute settlement from renewable energy-related disputes Vyoma Jha; 12. International economic dispute settlement and digital trade in services - useful multilateral principles for the emerging global regulatory landscape? Philippe Lionnet; 13. Trade's experimental compliance mechanisms Kathleen Claussen; Part IV. Regional approaches for international economic dispute settlement: 14. The future of international economic dispute resolution - an Asian perspective Locknie Hsu; 15. No lessons from the crises in the international trade and investment dispute settlement mechanisms: the African continental free trade area Malebakeng Forere; 16. The time of PTAs dispute settlement mechanisms might have come: assessing the risks Cornelia Furculi?a; 17. Dispute settlement in free trade agreements as a suggested alternative to WTO dispute settlement Jenya Grigorova and Elli Zachari; Index.