International trade law is at a turning point, and the rules as we know them are being broken, rewritten, and reshaped at all levels. At the same time that institutions like the World Trade Organization (WTO) face significant change and a global pandemic challenges the rules of the market,...

At long last, gender and trade are together on the international agenda, with significant implications for women entrepreneurs and traders around the world. Alongside the landmark 2017 Joint Declaration on Trade and Women’s Empowerment, regional trade agreements (RTAs) have taken the lead on...

Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) have promoted rule of law in a number of areas – labor and environmental requirements, trade facilitation, standards, intellectual property protection, and development of services infrastructure – and in some cases have allowed domestic industries and...

The current global pandemic illustrates that existing trade agreement models, including free trade agreements (FTAs), present challenges when countries must deal with exogenous shocks. As economies reopen worldwide, the time is ripe to re-conceptualize trade agreements and align them with the...