Centre for Commercial Law Studies: Recent submissions
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Improving transparency of lending to sovereign governments
(2020-07-15) -
China’s Preferential Treatment on Trade in Services: is the Sleeping Dragon about to Wake Up?
This paper examines China’s specific commitments and rules on trade in services included in its Preferential Trade Agreements. The findings reveal that so far such agreements include only modest improvements compared with ... -
Force Majeure and Hardship in the Age of Corona
(University of Missouri-columbia, 2020) -
What does Europe do about Fair Competition in International Air Transport? A Critique of Recent Actions
(Kluwer Law International, 2020-05)The States’ perception of what constitutes fair competition in internationalairtransporthasevolvedfromaquidproquoapproachintheera of airline regulation to a laissez-faire approach in the era of airline de-regulation. ... -
International Commercial Surrogacy as a New Head of Tortious Damage: XX v Whittington Hospital NHS Trust [2018] EWCA Civ 2832.
(2020-02-01)In XX v Whittington Hospital NHS Trust [2018] EWCA Civ 2832, the Court of Appeal recognised commercial surrogacy in California as a permissible head of damage in a case of negligently inflicted infertility. Due to changing ... -
Backlash and State Strategies in International Investment Law
(Cambridge University Press, 2018-04-05)This book provides an important corrective to existing theories of international law by focusing on how states respond to increased legalisation and rely on legal expertise to manoeuvre within and against international law. -
Managing Backlash: The Evolving Investment Treaty Arbitrator?
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2018-07-23) -
INNOVATION CONSIDERATIONS IN HORIZONTAL MERGER CONTROL
This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Competition Law following peer review. The version of record Ioannis Kokkoris, Tommaso Valletti, Innovation Considerations ... -
Poor States or Poor Governance? Explaining Outcomes in Investment Treaty Arbitration
(University of Illinois Press, 2018-07-12)Is investment treaty arbitration (ITA) tarnished by a bias against developing states? The international investment regime relies heavily on arbitration for the enforcement of its substantive rules but critique has risen ... -
Insurable Interest and the Law
(Routledge, 2020-06-01)This book assesses the role of the doctrine of insurable interest within modern insurance law by examining its rationales and suggesting how shortcomings could be fixed. The doctrine of insurable interest is concerned with ... -
Image rights, Creativity and Video Games
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2019-12-30) -
Denial of Benefits Clause
(Oxford University Press, 2019)‘Denial of benefits’ clause has been in the spotlight in the past ten years or so as a method of countering treaty shopping and preventing the misuse of the benefits of international investment agreement (IIA). No doubt, ... -
Efficiency. What Else? Efficiency as the Emerging Defining Value of International Arbitration: Between Systems Theories and Party Autonomy
(Oxford University Press, 2019)International arbitration case numbers slowly but steadily increase and arbitration gains acceptance in jurisdictions where arbitration was previously underutilized or not encouraged; at the same time the subject matters ...