This book explores the tension between capital controls and international economic law. Does the IMF have the authority to regulate the use of capital controls? Mercurio shows how to test whether a given country's use of capital controls is consistent with their obligations under various trade and investment agreements.

The first book to argue for an international instrument addressing access to interoperability standards and standards-essential intellectual property, with the potential to become essential to competition in standardized markets, examining the issues from the perspectives of international law, domestic intellectual property and competition laws.