It provides a medium for exchanging ideas and constructive debates about legal and policy issues surrounding world trade, cross-border investment and development, among other inter-related aspects of international law.

It was founded in 2009 by Shashank P. Kumar, an alumnus of NLU, Jodhpur.TL&D is publishes two issues each year – one in the summer, and one in the winter.

Previous special issues have covered areas such as "Trade Facilitation Agreement" (2019), "Revisiting WTO's Role in Global Governance" (2018), "Recent Regionalism" (2017), "Trade and Public Health" (2016) and "Government Procurement" (2015), inter alia.

All references in the Journal are formatted as per the latest edition of The Bluebook: A Uniform Style of Citation.

It publishes "Articles", "Notes", "Comments" or "Book Reviews" from distinguished and diverse authors, including, inter alia, judges, scholars, policy-makers, practitioners and students.