Volume 18 (2015), Edition 4

Up to the present, the People’s Republic of China (China/P.R.C.) has concluded alarge number of international investment agreements (IIAs). China’s IIAs roughlyinclude three different types, namely, bilateral investment treaties (BITs),...

The public enforcement of the European Union (EU) prohibition of hard-core cartels,in particular, price-fixing agreements, reflects the mission of the European Commission(EC) to detect and punish any professional or trade association of producers...

On 1 October 2015, the 2005 Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements(hereinafter “Convention”) entered into force. Accordingly, on that date, the Convention’scurrent contracting states, Mexico and all member states of the EuropeanUnion...

From today’s perspective it seems that the original purpose of European integration– the establishment of peace on the continent – has been successfully implemented;there is another objective however that has become ever more important. Given...