Executive Summary (Summary of a project undertaken for Trade Law Bureau, Government of Canada)* (Full report can be read here)** The seventy years following the establishment of the multilateral trading regime with the GATT 1947 have seen very few invocations of national security exceptions to treaty obligations. Recently, this trend has begun to change. The use of Article XXI of the GATT 1994 has seen a significant upswing during 2017 and 2018. The current flurry of trade-di

Short summary of a Confidential Project for an International Government Organization The students of the Monash Law Clinic (2019) undertook two related projects for an intergovernmental organisation in respect of two developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region. For the second project, students evaluated five legislative proposals for their compatibility with Country B’s obligations under WTO law. The proposals were also evaluated for compatibility with Country B’s consti

Short summary of a Confidential Project for an International Government Organization The students of the Monash Law Clinic (2019) undertook two related projects for an intergovernmental organisation in respect of two developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The first project for Country A evaluated three legislative proposals for their compatibility with Country A’s obligations under WTO law and an investment law chapter of a preferential trade agreement that Country