Dai Yokomizo is Professor of Private International Law at the Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University.

Yoshizumi Tojo is Professor of International Economic Law at the College of Law and Politics, Rikkyo University.

Yoshiko Naiki is Professor of Public International Law at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University.

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Table of International Treaties

Preface

1 Introduction 1

YOSHIZUMI TOJO

2 Change in the International Economic Order: From the Perspective of Political Science

KEISUKE IIDA

3 The Impact of Regional Integration on Global Harmonisation of Private Law

HIROO SONO

4 'Business and Human Rights' from Global and Asian Perspectives

YUKO NISHITANI

5 Resolution of Islamic Financial Disputes under Private International Law in Japan

SHIHO KATO

6 Regional Economic Integration in the Asia-Pacific in the Era of Disintegration

TAKAO SUAMI

7 Judicial Overreach Should Be Guided Rather than Suppressed in Order to Resolve the Appellate Body Crisis: Reflecting on Dworkin's View on Judicial Discretion

KAZUMOCHI KOMETANI

8 International Law Matters: The Legality of Unilateral Embargoes, Suspensions of Air Transport, and Restrictions on Investment by Reason of Pandemic or National Security Considerations, or in Response to Serious Breaches of International Law

KAZUHIRO NAKATANI

9 Security Clauses and Evolving Notions of National Security in the WTO in the Age of 'Securitization of Everything'

TSUYOSHI KAWASE

10 Security Exceptions in International Investment Agreements: The Case of Japan

TOMOKO ISHIKAWA

11 Intellectual Property and National Security

MASABUMI SUZUKI

12 Revisiting Subsidy Rules, after the Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19: Suggestion to Utilize Article VI: 6(c) of the GATT

OSAMU UMEJIMA

13 Mainstreaming Non-trade Concerns in International Trade Law

JUNJI NAKAGAWA

14 International Standardization in the Era of Sustainable Development Goals: Smart Cities, the Circular Economy, and Digitalization

YOSHIKO NAIKI

15 Investment Treaties and Human Rights Violations Outside a Host State: Where and How Should They Be Placed Inside ISDS?

AZUSA KIKUMA

16 Transboundary Environmental Damage

MIDORI NARAZAKI

17 COVID-19 and Compulsory Licensing

AKIKO KATO

Index