During the 1990s, Latin American countries changed their trade and development policies, although to varying degrees, from the “import substitution industrialization” policies of the 1960s and 1970s to more “export-oriented,” trade-liberalizing alternatives. These transformations...

This article examines the social challenges posed by the data-driven economy, their implications for international trade law, the current trade negotiating context involving distinct models advanced by the United States, European Union and China, and a way forward that can both enhance trade and...

Global Value Chains (GVCs) rely on division of labor within and beyond borders to minimize production costs and build regional and global value chains. Since starting its economic reform four decades ago, China has been highly successful in integrating its economy into regional and global value...

The world faces multiple challenges in producing global public goods, such as climate change mitigation, financial stability, security from nuclear terror, knowledge production, and the eradication of infectious diseases. International law scholarship, in the meantime, takes a turn towards...

This article develops the framework of comparative institutional analysis for assessing the implications of judicial interpretation in the World Trade Organization (WTO). The analytical framework offers an improved means to describe and assess the consequences of choices made in treaty drafting...

The U.S.-China trade relationship poses a frontal challenge to the multilateral trading system, and it has broad repercussions for international law. This article addresses three dimensions for conceptualizing the interface between the U.S. and Chinese systems through trade law: (i) economic;...

This article develops the framework of comparative institutional analysis for assessing the implications of judicial interpretation in the World Trade Organization (WTO). The analytical framework offers an improved means to describe and assess the consequences of choices made in treaty drafting...

There is a serious imbalance between the sclerosis of the political system of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the automatic adoption of WTO Appellate Body judicial reports. The question is whether the WTO Appellate Body will recognize bilateral political agreements (such as under Free...

China is incrementally developing a new, decentralized model of trade governance through a web of finance, trade, and investment initiatives involving memorandum of understanding, contracts, and trade and investment treaties, supported by an indigenous innovation policy that is transnational in...

This introductory chapter lays groundwork for the study of the impact of globalization on legal education. In particular, it addresses transnational processes of legal education reform and resistance, and what these processes mean for law and lawyers in different countries. We build from the...