Background Documents

Text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership​​ signed on 4 February 2016, Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) of Singapore [ click here ]

Government of Canada, Official website on TPP [ click here ]

Books on TPP
C. L. Lim, Deborah Kay Elms, and Patrick Low 'The Trans-Pacific Partnership-- A Quest for a Twenty-first Century Trade Agreement. London Cambridge University Press 2012 [ click here ]

Julien Chaisse and Tsai-yu Lin "International Economic Law and Governance-- Essays in Honour of Mitsuo Matsushita" London: Oxford University Press 2016 [ click here ]

Article on TPP
Henry Gao "Selected Issues in TPP Negotiations and Implications for China" Jiaxiang Hu & Matthias Vanhullebusch (eds.), REGIONAL COOPERATION AND FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS IN ASIA, Brill Academic Publishers, pp. 77-98, 2014, Singapore Management University School of Law Research Paper No. 32/2014 [ click here ]

Julien Chaisse 'Two Steps Forward One Step Back… The Trans-Pacific Partnership Investment Rules' (2016) 47(4) Georgetown Journal of International Law [ click here ]

Julien Chaisse "Navigating the Expanding Universe of International Treaties on Foreign Investment-- Creation and Use of a Critical Index" (2015) 18(1) Journal of International Economic Law 79-115 [ click here ]

Julien Chaisse 'The Shifting Tectonics of International Investment Law-- Structure and Dynamics of Rules and Arbitration on Foreign Investment in the Asia-Pacific Region' (2015) 47(3) George Washington International Law Review 563-638 [ click here ]

Fernando Dias Simões "Harmonisation of Arbitration Laws in the Asia-Pacific: Trendy or Necessary?" in: TRADE DEVELOPMENT THROUGH HARMONIZATION OF COMMERCIAL L AW, 217-255 [ click here ]

Bryan Druzin "Anarchy, Order, and Trade: A structuralist Account of why a global Commercial Legal Order is emerging" (2014) Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1047 [ click here ]

Mark Feldman  "The Role of Pacific Rim FTAs in the Harmonisation of International Investment Law: Towards a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific" (2016) E15 Task Force Think Piece [ click here ]

Darryl Jarvis "Market Building in Asia: Standards Setting, Policy Diffusion, and the Globalization of Market Norms" (2013) Journal of Asian Public Policy  [ click here ]

Mitsuo Matsushita "A View on Future Roles of The WTO: Should There be More Soft Law in The WTO", J Int Economic Law (2014) 17 (3): 701-715  [ click here ]

Bryan Mercurio "The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Suddenly a 'Game Changer'" (2014) World Economy 37(11) [ click here ]

Errol Muir, Douglas Brooks and David Treisman (eds) Current Issues in Asia Pacific Foreign Direct Investment (Melbourne: APEC Publisher 2015) 93 p. [ click here ]

Heng Wang "The Features of China's Recent FTA and Their Implications an Anatomy of the China-Korea FTA" AJWH, Vol. 11:1, 2016 [ click here ]