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Disciplining CBDCs: Achieving the Balance between Privacy Protection and Central Bank Independence

9 December 2023

Central bank digital currency (“CBDC”) is a crucial FinTech development that aspires to overhaul the current payment system. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, CBDCs' promises to reduce personal contact, facilitate socially desirable use of money, ...

The Problems of Using the Latest Institutional Arbitration Rules for Investment Treaty Disputes

15 May 2023

International arbitration institutions have been requested to administer an increasing number of investment disputes. In investment arbitration, a responding state usually stipulates its standing offers to arbitrate in the bilateral investment treaty (BIT ...

Adequate Level of Data Protection and ADR in Cross-border Data Disputes — International Trade Law Perspective

15 May 2023

Regulatory measures on cross-border data flows are essential to personal data protection laws. The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) of the European Union (“EU”) is one of such influential personal data protection regimes, which has become a mod ...

AJWH 17.1_Special Issue on “Building a Sustainable Future: New Asian Regionalism in International Economic Law” Published

15 May 2023

In March 2022, the Asian Center for WTO & International Health Law and Policy, College of Law, National Taiwan University, published Volume 17, Number 1 of the Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy. For more information (inclu ...

CAN THE CPTPP HELP? THE (UN)EXPECTED ROLES OF THE CPTPP TO ERADICATE FORCED LABOR ISSUES IN TAIWANESE DISTANT WATER FISHERIES

15 May 2023

Labor rights and working conditions may be affected if international trade and investment agreements are concluded between contracting parties. Some assert that these agreements advance states’ labor conditions because boosting economic activities creates ...

Tobacco Control And Procedural Fairness in the Context of Investment Treaty Arbitration

15 May 2023

The Framework Convention of Tobacco Control (hereinafter “FCTC”) is the first treaty aiming to combat the tobacco epidemic under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO). This multilateral convention seeks to pursue the highest public health pr ...

Development in Responses of Arbitral Tribunals to Third-Party Funding in International Investment Arbitration

15 May 2023

Concerns have been raised over the utilization of third-party funding in investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS). This paper aims to examine how the tribunals deal with the arguments raised by the respondents in the proceeding and evaluate whether the ar ...

DEVELOPMENT IN RESPONSES OF ARBITRAL TRIBUNALS TO THIRD-PARTY FUNDING IN INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT ARBITRATION

9 February 2023

Concerns have been raised over the utilization of third-party funding in investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS). This paper aims to examine how the tribunals deal with the arguments raised by the respondents in the proceeding and evaluate whether the ar ...