Abstract In the context of ongoing debates concerning reform investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism, this article critiques widely-accepted approach that seeks to fit international human rights law (IHRL) into existing structure ISDS and argues IHRL should at least be treated as ‘primus inter pares’ vis-à-vis investment law. Testing on touchstone equality, non-discrimination, an eff...

This article is intended to introduce the assertion of the Japanese government with regard to the territorial dispute over the Senkaku Islands, and to present an objective and reasoned examination to the problem in terms of international law. Before turning to the main part of the article, some basic points of international law shall be given as an introduction to the legal issues relevant to t...

This paper advances the debate over the question whether false beliefs may nevertheless have warrant, the property that yields knowledge when conjoined with true belief. The paper’s first main part—which spans Sections 2–4—assesses the best argument for Warrant Infallibilism, the view that only true beliefs can have warrant. I show that this argument’s key premise conflicts with an extremely pl...

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) involves twelve Pacific Rim economies of varying sizes and structures. Although often portrayed as a free trade agreement, the TPPA can, at best, be expected to deliver paltry overall growth gains from trade liberalization. The much higher figures touted by TPPA advocates are largely due to dubious ‘non-trade measures’, most of which have been reje...