Free trade or fair trade? Possible scenarios in the light of the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement

Abstract

The present work focuses on the EU-Japan Partnership Agreement, whose consolidated text was finalized on December 2017, having regard to the protection of social rights: in this regard a specific attention will be paid to the EPA chapter on trade and sustainable development and to the negotiations of the Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clause, taking into account the current EU approach as formalized in other recent trade agreements.