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How to Uphold Corporate Social Responsibility Effectively?

October 25, 2022

Access to Justice and Socio-Economic Rights

October 18, 2022

Global Human Rights Standards and Corporate Accountability

October 10, 2022

Supporting Peace Efforts in Colombia

October 3, 2022

Corporations and Socio-Economic Rights

September 26, 2022

The Importance of Corporate Accountability

September 20, 2022

Corporate Accountability has Come Far

September 15, 2022

Cambodia's Journey Towards Sustainable Development

September 13, 2022

How to Observe and Secure Human Rights

September 8, 2022

Arbitration: Governments vs Private Companies

September 6, 2022

The European Union Blacklists

August 29, 2022

Understanding Accountability

August 26, 2022

Recognizing the Right to Health

August 22, 2022

Agreements Such as the WTO and CETA Don’t Help “Deal With” National Champions Much

August 17, 2022

Are Socio-Economic Rights an International Issue for China?

August 15, 2022

European Response to Tax Avoidance

August 10, 2022

State and Corporate Symbiosis

August 8, 2022

Globalization and Socio-Economic Rights

August 1, 2022

International Efforts to Observe and Secure Human Rights

July 25, 2022

Transnational Trail of Destruction

July 22, 2022

Different Regions are “Dealing With” National Champions

July 18, 2022

Can Industrial and Energy Projects Respect the Enviornment?

July 11, 2022

The Impact of Consumer Behaviours

July 4, 2022

Emerging Economies as Amplifiers of Clean Energy Technology Transference

June 24, 2022

Slave Trade as a Precedent of Corporate Violation of Human Rights

June 20, 2022

Methane-Hydrate Extraction in China: Compensation Remedies

June 17, 2022

Blockchain and Security

June 2, 2022

Core-Periphery Dependence Through Clean Energy Technology Transference

May 27, 2022

China and Global Climate Protection

May 23, 2022

Can National Champions Become an Issue?

May 20, 2022

China's Influence on Non-Trade Concerns in International Economic Law

Xinfang - an extrajudicial system of solving legal disputes

September 22, 2018

Dangerous substances liability

September 21, 2018

TRIPS in biotech

September 7, 2018

Defining discovery and invention

September 6, 2018

Exceptions to patent law for biotech

September 5, 2018

Judicial hurdles in compensation

September 2, 2018

Legislative principles in tort law

September 1, 2018

Is it civil or criminal law?

August 31, 2018

Product safety and torts

August 30, 2018

Balancing Intellectual Property Rights and Traditional Knowledge

August 29, 2018

The future of Intellectual Property Rights

August 28, 2018

Regulatory burden of the Chinese pharmaceutical markets

August 27, 2018

Traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expression

August 26, 2018

Who in the world is filing PCTs?

August 25, 2018

Public health consideration of the TRIPS Agreement

August 24, 2018

Defining genetic resources

August 23, 2018

Changing 21 century dynamic in the pharmaceutical import/export market

August 22, 2018

Balancing Intellectual Property Rights and access to live-saving medicine

August 21, 2018

Adaptive regulations in food security

August 20, 2018

Why social media in China stay Chinese

August 16, 2018

Adaptive regulations in food security

August 14, 2018

The sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures are not self-evident

August 12, 2018

Defining public morals

August 8, 2018

The most-favored nation principle

August 5, 2018

Providing the Internet is a telecommunication service

August 1, 2018

Article IV of the GATT

July 30, 2018

The State Administration for Radio, Film and Television

July 29, 2018

Culture, China and WTO obligations

July 28, 2018

Intellectual Property Rights as Non-Trade Concerns

June 29, 2018

Ensuring Cultural Considerations

June 28, 2018

The legal foundation of food as a human right in China

June 27, 2018

Media Control in China

June 26, 2018

China and Regional Trade Agreements

June 25, 2018

Climate change is a global problem, with individualized solutions

June 16, 2018

African nations and China must work together on future public policy

June 15, 2018

China has a decades-long tradition of outward foreign direct investment

June 14, 2018

Chinese domestic policy has emerged the improvement of labor standards

June 13, 2018

Common But Differentiated Responses

June 12, 2018

China is proving to be an example on how to balance international and domestic policy concerns

June 8, 2018

The ILO, The WTO, and Human Rights

June 7, 2018

China's role in promoting Non-Trade Concerns.

June 5, 2018

Shale gas gives China a unique opportunity for energy independence

May 30, 2018

Chinese NGOs are emerging as a force in the international community

May 29, 2018

A prescription for reform on judicial relief in Chinese law

May 24, 2018

The "Three Synchronizations" are a model to be adopted for all environmental regulation efforts

May 23, 2018

Technology transfer and Developing Countries

May 17, 2018

Cap-and-trade policies and the Kyoto Protocol

May 16, 2018

Chinese Law has been impacted by the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement

May 14, 2018

A case for Non-Trade Concerns in the greater context of globalization

May 11, 2018

China has significant obligations to the WTO on media production and consumption

May 7, 2018

China and India have improved consumer protection

May 2, 2018

Tort law can be used to measure adherence to environmental protection

April 30, 2018

The Role of the International Community in the Protection of Genetic Resources

April 23, 2018

Clean Development Mechanisms and Least Developed Countries

April 20, 2018

China’s Environmental Public Interest Litigation

April 19, 2018

Product Liability in China

April 18, 2018

China and Food Security

April 16, 2018

Public Interest Litigation or Rights Interest Litigation?

April 13, 2018

Is China making progresses in tackling its environmental issues?

April 12, 2018

Chinese NGOs in climate change debate

April 5, 2018

April 4, 2018

Will China be able to feed itself?

March 28, 2018

Non-Trade Concerns and Consumer Protection in China

March 27, 2018

An Overview of the Concept of Food Security in Emerging Countries

March 26, 2018

March 12, 2018

Access to medical technologies and the promotion of creativity and innovation

March 11, 2018

Environmental Courts in China

March 10, 2018

Market Economy Status and Consumer Protection

March 9, 2018

The present and future of China's environmental practices

March 5, 2018

What about US Social Media in China?

February 27, 2018

Is China doing its best to protect works and trade?

February 26, 2018

Right to food and trade law in conflict: is it possible to find a balance?

February 22, 2018

US Cultural Industries and China

December 29, 2017

The Application of International Standards to Technical Regulations

December 28, 2017

SPS Measures and the Appropriate Level of Protection

December 27, 2017

Three Discourses on Culture and Trade from “Identity” to “Diversity”

December 26, 2017

The Water Problem in the People’s Republic of China (PRC)

December 25, 2017

The TBT Agreement and the Necessity of Technical Regulations

December 24, 2017

The Importance of Scientific Justification When Imposing an SPS Measure

December 23, 2017

The Right to Water and the Obligations for the People’s Republic of China

December 22, 2017

COP 23: Another non-binding declaration or significant breakthrough?

December 21, 2017

National Treatment and Most-Favored Nation Principles in the TBT Agreement

December 21, 2017

Harmonious Society and Non-Trade Concerns

December 20, 2017

The Importance of Harmonizing National SPS Regulatory Measures

December 19, 2017

The Primacy of Trade Law Over Culture Law

December 18, 2017

Could China do better in environmental protection law?

December 17, 2017

Water Scarcity in the People’s Republic of China

December 16, 2017

How the TBT Agreement Creates a Balance Between Trade and Non-Trade Objectives

December 15, 2017

The New Challenges Facing the Agri-Food Trade

December 14, 2017

What Kind of Story Does the Chinese Investment in Africa Tell?

December 13, 2017

A Global Consensus on Food Security: A Hope for the Realization of the Right to Food?

December 12, 2017

Cultural Diversity in the Context of Globalization

December 11, 2017

Ethical Foundations of Global Governance: A realistic Vision or Utopia?

December 10, 2017

The Right to Water in China

December 9, 2017

The Core of Climate Change Regime: Common but Differentiated Responsibilities

December 8, 2017

How to Balance Trade and Product Safety Measures

December 7, 2017

Rights to Food and WTO Trade Law – Two Concepts at Odds?

December 6, 2017

The Interplay Between Health Measures and Agri-Food Products

December 5, 2017

How are CDM Projects Distributed and Why?

December 4, 2017

A Pharmaceutical Goldrush? Hidden Potential of the Chinese Pharmaceutical Market

December 3, 2017

Proportionality does not always mean appropriate

June 20, 2018

The Four Freedoms Means Access to Food is a Human Right

June 19, 2018

The WTO is ripe for reform

June 18, 2018

Fragmented Governance and citizens

June 11, 2018

Holographic governance leans on the Golden Rule

June 6, 2018

Atomistic governance: the Lockean perspective

June 4, 2018

How Does the Hierarchy Work in Governance?

June 1, 2018

An introduction to Governance Typology

May 28, 2018

A new philosophical view on governance must be adopted

May 22, 2018

Now is the right time for a new approach to global governance

May 18, 2018

What is Integrative Governance?

May 10, 2018

The three pillars of sustainability in crisis

May 9, 2018

Hierarchical Governance is closely related to capitalism and the welfare state

May 8, 2018

Modeling behavior of modern and historically Liberal governments

May 3, 2018

How a community can best encourage participation in government

May 1, 2018

How is it possible to improve global governance in International Financial Law?

April 10, 2018

March 13, 2018

Can Governance be Considered a Fragmented Concept?

March 2, 2018

The Concept of Holographic Governance

February 28, 2018

The Link Between Ontology, Language and Governance

February 25, 2018

Is it Possible to Think of Atomistic Governance?

February 24, 2018

What is the ideal form of governance?

February 23, 2018

A global crisis or many crises?

February 21, 2018

What is Hierarchical Governance?

February 19, 2018

What Role Does the Ontology Play in Political Philosophy?

February 2, 2018

The Reform of Neoliberal Governance Models

February 1, 2018

(Un)intended Consequences of Freer Trade

July 3, 2018

Made in the World

July 2, 2018

The WTO's relationship with financial institutions

June 6, 2018

Next time, the banks should bail themselves out

May 31, 2018

The UN should have a seat at the table for developing nations in financial regulation negotiations

May 25, 2018

Should Nations be able to restructure their debts?

May 21, 2018

The wide-world of strategies on banking regulation

May 15, 2018

Who would run an international regulatory agency on financial markets?

May 4, 2018

Five methods of recognizing national considerations of regulations

April 27, 2018

How to refocus the ever-increasing global access to healthful foods

April 26, 2018

From the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement, nuance in negotiations regarding sustainable and renewable energy policy

April 25, 2018

The opportunity for reform on national debt restructuring

April 24, 2018

Food Security and Regulatory Regimes

April 17, 2018

The Democratic Foundations of the WTO and its reform

April 11, 2018

April 9, 2018

April 6, 2018

Plurateralism or Multilateralism: Quo Vadis, Energy Agreement?

April 3, 2018

April 2, 2018

Interdependence in WTO case law, its pros and cons

March 28, 2018

Dancing on the rope: The role of proportionality in international economic law

March 25, 2018

Achieving food security in a multy-layers international governance

March 24, 2018

Local initiatives, Basel regulation and neoliberal policies

March 23, 2018

Dispute Settlement System under the WTO: The Birth of a Quasi-Judicial Body?

March 22, 2018

Reform of international investment law as a response to arbitrations initiated against Argentina

March 21, 2018

International Monetary Fund: Quo Vadis?

March 20, 2018

WTO disputes involving subsidies in the renewable energy sector in light of the global response to climate change

March 19, 2018

Connected Without Choice: The Role of Interdependence in (not only) WTO Law

March 18, 2018

The doctrine of necessity: Valid ground for exoneration?

March 16, 2018

Neoliberalism in Global Financial Governance: Where Do We Go from Here?

March 14, 2018

The Evolution of Global Economic Governance: From the Basics to the Complexity

March 6, 2018

Arguments Against the Application of the Principle of Proportionality

March 4, 2018

The Functions and Roles of the WTO Panels

March 3, 2018

Bail-In: A Solution in Case of Economic Crisis?

March 1, 2018

How does the concept of interdependence relate to international trade law?

February 20, 2018

Has Proportionality a Cosmopolitan Nature?

January 31, 2018

Identifying the Risks of a Reform of the WTO

January 30, 2018

Is Interdependence a Product of WTO?

January 29, 2018

Is the WTO Reformable?

January 28, 2018

The Concept of Necessity in International Law

January 27, 2018

Banking Regulations and the New Locus of Power

January 26, 2018

The Bail-in Approach

January 25, 2018

Designing a World Financial Organization

January 24, 2018

Toward the Development of Global Financial Regulation

January 23, 2018

WTO Law: Is There a Need for a Specific Energy Trade Agreement?

January 22, 2018

How to Approach the Issue of Food Security?

January 21, 2018

Multilevel Governance and Food Security

January 20, 2018

The WTO and Renewables: Some Tensions

January 19, 2018

Banking Regulations and Neoliberal Policies

January 18, 2018

Pros and Cons of Bail-In Policies

January 17, 2018

Re-designing Global Economic Governance

January 16, 2018

WTO, Global Economy, and the International Regime

January 15, 2018

State of Necessity and Debts: How to Cope?

January 14, 2018

International Investment Law: Responses to the Economic Crisis

January 13, 2018

How to reform the WTO?

January 12, 2018

The Importance of the Establishment of the WTO

January 11, 2018

The Development of the Principle of Proportionality

January 10, 2018

The Historical Development of the WTO Dispute Settlement

January 9, 2018

Globalization and the Current Modes of Production

January 8, 2018

The Importance of Good Governance for the Development of Institutions

January 7, 2018

The Principle of Proportionality in EU Law

January 6, 2018

The Reform of the WTO

January 5, 2018

Economic Interdependence and the World Trade Organization

January 4, 2018

The Impact of Globalization on International Economic Governance

January 3, 2018

How Has the Appellate Body of the WTO Changed Since Its Creation?

January 2, 2018

The International Trading Regime and the Regulation of Trade in Energy Resources

January 1, 2018

The World Financial Organization as a Mean to Prevent Crisis

December 31, 2017

Does the Concept of Proportionality Play a Role in International Economic Law?

December 30, 2017

Reworking

October 31, 2018

From Economic to Sustainable Understandings

October 19, 2018

Reductionism

October 18, 2018

Tyranny of Circumstances

October 17, 2018

Sustainable Development as Anthropocentric Realism

October 16, 2018

Lessons from the Global North

October 15, 2018

Resistance

October 14, 2018

Resilience

October 12, 2018

Worker agency

October 11, 2018

An ecological democracy

October 10, 2018

Gender-based classes

October 9, 2018

Four income-based classes

October 8, 2018

Income equals environmental harm

October 7, 2018

Sphere of human thought

October 5, 2018

Changes in the noosphere

October 4, 2018

Noosphere and the biosphere

October 3, 2018

The scale of the noosphere

October 2, 2018

What is an actor to do in the Anthropocene?

October 1, 2018

A biotic collapse is imminent

September 30, 2018

Cultivating best outcome for the Anthropocene

September 29, 2018

How to manage the environment as a neoliberal

September 28, 2018

Neoliberalism

September 27, 2018

Why distinguish between the “human” and “natural” worlds?

September 26, 2018

Squaring the circle of ecological sustainability and capitalism

September 24, 2018

What does capitalism look like?

September 23, 2018

Human Influence

September 20, 2018

The anthropocene

September 19, 2018

Modelling climigration

September 16, 2018

Climigration

September 15, 2018

Climigrants and clirefugees

September 14, 2018

Defining the anthropocene

September 13, 2018

What is Human stratigraphy?

September 12, 2018

Rising inequality

September 9, 2018

Lingua franca

September 8, 2018

The Anthropocene and Neoliberalism’breakdown

March 17, 2018

Capitalism and the Environment

March 15, 2018

Climigration

March 8, 2018

Noosphere and Knowledge Production

March 7, 2018

February 17, 2018

February 16, 2018

What is the Noosphere?

February 15, 2018

Today's Ecological Issues and the Anthropocene

February 14, 2018

Anthropocene and the Law

February 13, 2018

Sustainable Development in the Anthropocene

February 12, 2018

Are There Alternatives to Infinite Growth & Expansion?

February 11, 2018

February 10, 2018

Rethink Our Relationship with Earth

February 9, 2018

Which Future for Climate Change Migrants?

February 8, 2018

Is There Room for a Sustainable Capitalism?

February 7, 2018

Capitalism and the Environment

February 6, 2018

Climate Change and Refugees

February 5, 2018

The Anthropocene and the City: Some Considerations Around a New Era

February 4, 2018

Is Language a Gift for the Rise of Human Culture?

February 3, 2018

Can Industrial and Energy Projects Respect the Enviornment?

July 11, 2022

Emerging Economies as Amplifiers of Clean Energy Technology Transference

June 24, 2022

Methane-Hydrate Extraction in China: Compensation Remedies

June 17, 2022

Blockchain and Security

June 2, 2022

Core-Periphery Dependence Through Clean Energy Technology Transference

May 27, 2022

China and Global Climate Protection

May 23, 2022

Effectively Governing the Methane Hydrates Extraction Process

May 16, 2022

Protecting Natural Resources in the Caspian Sea

May 6, 2022

Opportunities and Possibilities Blockchain Technologies Present for Public Administrations

May 2, 2022

Securing the Energy Transition

April 29, 2022

Estonia as a Global Digital Model

April 25, 2022

Methane-Hydrate Extraction in China: An Emerging Phenomenon

April 18, 2022

Energy Issues China is Attempting to Address

April 8, 2022

Blockchain Technologies as International Trade Tools

April 4, 2022

The Classification and Division of the Caspian Sea

April 1, 2022

The Balance of Interestes in the Energy Sector

March 28, 2022

Global Possibilities and Blockchain Technologies

March 18, 2022

Methane-Hydrate Extraction in China: The Struggle of Assessing the Unknown

March 14, 2022

Changing Environmental Conditions and Energy Policies

March 7, 2022

What Should Be Learned from the Caspian Sea Convention

February 21, 2022

Energy Issues that China is Attempting to Address

February 14, 2022

The Relevance of Sustainable Development Goals and the Development Agenda 2030

February 11, 2022

The Various Potential Applications for Blockchain in Governments

February 4, 2022

Information Asymmetry as a Barrier to Justice

January 31, 2022

Technology Transfer and Climate Change

January 17, 2022

The Intertwined Laws and Practices of Electricity Trade Governing Bodies

January 3, 2022

Problems regarding the legal classification of the Caspian Sea

December 27, 2021

The Real Effects of Climate Change on China

December 19, 2021

The energy issue in the Anthropocene

December 12, 2021

Methane Hydrates as a Sustainable Energy

December 5, 2021

The Environmental Responsibility Behind Development

April 6, 2021

How to Facilitate the Actual Trade of Electricity?

March 30, 2021

Priming Citizens for the Acceptance of Blockchain Technologies

February 25, 2021

The Fourth Industrial Revolution

February 9, 2021

Why is China so Concerned with “Energy Security?”

February 2, 2021

Balancing Business and Sustainability in the Energy Field: The Chinese Example

April 20, 2020

Solidarity to Help Fight Poverty

March 9, 2020

Bridging the Gap Between North and South

February 16, 2020

Electricity: a good or a service?

January 5, 2020

Stronger International Regulations Are Required for Inland Water Masses

May 25, 2019

Intellectual Property and Clean Energy Technology Transference

May 18, 2019

Trust as a Precondition for Governmental Blockchain Applications

March 16, 2019

Domestic US natural gas markets greatly impact China

August 19, 2018

Do we need an OPEC for natural gas exporting countries?

August 15, 2018

In China, the State owns the Mineral Rights

August 13, 2018

Pipelines are the reason why natural gas is so abundant in the US

August 9, 2018

The price of natural gas is a political player

August 7, 2018

Disclosure is key in maintaining public trust of fracking

August 6, 2018

Who do I buy the mineral rights from?

August 2, 2018

Chinese regulatory bodies and energy

July 31, 2018

Three outcomes for regulating fracking fluid

July 27, 2018

China and the WTO a desiderable outcome?

July 23, 2018

TRIPs still hasn't been fully adopted

July 19, 2018

Keeping One's Promises

July 17, 2018

Hydraulic fracturing can be regulated like mining coal

July 16, 2018

How China should regulate the shale gas industry

July 16, 2018

A transition toward a more sustainable future

July 12, 2018

Food security as a Non-Trade Concern

July 11, 2018

Environment, Health, and Trade

July 10, 2018

A Ceasefire Between Individualism and Collectivism

July 9, 2018

Considering Sustainability alongside Free Trade

July 6, 2018

Are Free Markets Incompatible with Sustainable Development?

July 5, 2018

Competition law and Sustainable Development

July 4, 2018

The relationship between Competiton Law and Sustainable Development

June 22, 2018

Globalization vs. Non-Trade Concerns

June 21, 2018

glawcal comments

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How to Uphold Corporate Social Responsibility Effectively?

Access to Justice and Socio-Economic Rights

Global Human Rights Standards and Corporate Accountability

Supporting Peace Efforts in Colombia

Corporations and Socio-Economic Rights

The Importance of Corporate Accountability

Corporate Accountability has Come Far

Cambodia's Journey Towards Sustainable Development

How to Observe and Secure Human Rights

Arbitration: Governments vs Private Companies

The European Union Blacklists

Understanding Accountability

Recognizing the Right to Health

Agreements Such as the WTO and CETA Don’t Help “Deal With” National Champions Much

Are Socio-Economic Rights an International Issue for China?

European Response to Tax Avoidance

State and Corporate Symbiosis

Globalization and Socio-Economic Rights

International Efforts to Observe and Secure Human Rights

Transnational Trail of Destruction

Different Regions are “Dealing With” National Champions

Can Industrial and Energy Projects Respect the Enviornment?

The Impact of Consumer Behaviours

Emerging Economies as Amplifiers of Clean Energy Technology Transference

Slave Trade as a Precedent of Corporate Violation of Human Rights

Methane-Hydrate Extraction in China: Compensation Remedies

Blockchain and Security

Core-Periphery Dependence Through Clean Energy Technology Transference

China and Global Climate Protection

Can National Champions Become an Issue?

China's Influence on Non-Trade Concerns in International Economic Law

Xinfang - an extrajudicial system of solving legal disputes

September 22, 2018

Dangerous substances liability

September 21, 2018

TRIPS in biotech

September 7, 2018

Defining discovery and invention

September 6, 2018

Exceptions to patent law for biotech

September 5, 2018

Judicial hurdles in compensation

September 2, 2018

Legislative principles in tort law

September 1, 2018

Is it civil or criminal law?

August 31, 2018

Product safety and torts

August 30, 2018

Balancing Intellectual Property Rights and Traditional Knowledge

August 29, 2018

The future of Intellectual Property Rights

August 28, 2018

Regulatory burden of the Chinese pharmaceutical markets

August 27, 2018

Traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expression

August 26, 2018

Who in the world is filing PCTs?

August 25, 2018

Public health consideration of the TRIPS Agreement

August 24, 2018

Defining genetic resources

August 23, 2018

Changing 21 century dynamic in the pharmaceutical import/export market

August 22, 2018

Balancing Intellectual Property Rights and access to live-saving medicine

August 21, 2018

Adaptive regulations in food security

August 20, 2018

Why social media in China stay Chinese

August 16, 2018

Adaptive regulations in food security

August 14, 2018

The sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures are not self-evident

August 12, 2018

Defining public morals

August 8, 2018

The most-favored nation principle