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View article: Addressing the Negative Externalities of Trade: Flanking Policies and the Role of Package Treaties
Addressing the Negative Externalities of Trade: Flanking Policies and the Role of Package Treaties Open
This article examines the rationales for addressing sustainability and social inclusion in trade policy and the tradeoffs among imperfect institutional choices in doing so through ‘flanking policies’. It examines three types of negative sp…
View article: Strontium depth distribution in human bone measured by micro-PIXE
Strontium depth distribution in human bone measured by micro-PIXE Open
Strontium is naturally present in human bone, where it may exert beneficial or detrimental health effects depending on its concentration. The way strontium influences bone health and the concentrations at which the beneficial/detrimental h…
View article: The Hague Closing Plenary: Confronting Impunity and Safeguarding Journalists in a Global Context
The Hague Closing Plenary: Confronting Impunity and Safeguarding Journalists in a Global Context Open
I hope that you have had as great a meeting as I have. This has been really powerful, the different sessions of bringing people together, and we are going to conclude with an incredibly powerful session.
View article: Theorizing Transnational Fiduciary Law
Theorizing Transnational Fiduciary Law Open
This symposium Article theorizes and assesses transnational legal ordering of fiduciary law. Fiduciary law imposes legally enforceable duties on those entrusted with discretionary authority over the interests of others. The fiduciary law o…
View article: Institutional Guardrails
Institutional Guardrails Open
America’s political institutions are the guardrails preventing our democratic system of government from plunging over the cliff into autocracy. But their durability and strength are not guaranteed, particularly when someone like the presid…
View article: Has Putin prompted a new transatlantic alliance?
Has Putin prompted a new transatlantic alliance? Open
A new transatlantic alliance is springing up in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but what form will it have when the dust settles? Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine has reinvigorated transatlantic cooperation, bringing the…
View article: Introduction to the Symposium on International Economic Law and Its Others
Introduction to the Symposium on International Economic Law and Its Others Open
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View article: Capitalism, international law, race, and China’s rise: Afterword to the Foreword by Karen Alter
Capitalism, international law, race, and China’s rise: Afterword to the Foreword by Karen Alter Open
Karen Alter’s rich Foreword develops an important research agenda regarding capitalism, and its impact on what she calls “global economic law.” This Afterword builds on Alter’s essay to make four points. First, it compares Alter’s framewor…
View article: Trade Law in a Data-Driven Economy
Trade Law in a Data-Driven Economy Open
This chapter introduces three cross-cutting themes that illustrate the relationship between artificial intelligence and international economic law (IEL): disruption, regulation, and reconfiguration. We explore the theme of disruption along…
View article: Governing the Interface of U.S.-China Trade Relations
Governing the Interface of U.S.-China Trade Relations Open
The strained U.S.-China trade relationship poses a frontal challenge to the multilateral trading system and has broad repercussions for international law. This Article addresses three dimensions of this relationship: (1) the economic dimen…
View article: Emerging Powers and the World Trading System: The Past and Future of International Economic Law
Emerging Powers and the World Trading System: The Past and Future of International Economic Law Open
Victorious after World War II and the Cold War, the United States and its allies largely wrote the rules for international trade and investment. Yet, by 2020, it was the United States that became the great disrupter - disenchanted with the…
View article: The role of law in Chinese value chains
The role of law in Chinese value chains Open
Since starting its economic reform four decades ago, China has been highly successful in integrating its economy into regional and global value chains (GVCs). This started with simple assembly and processing, then expanded to low-end labor…
View article: The World of States
The World of States Open
Without nation-states Covid-19, climate change, international cyberattacks, and other threats would go unchecked. In The World of States, John L. Campbell and John A. Hall challenge the view that nation-states have lost their relevance in …
View article: Trade Law in a Data-Driven Economy: The Need for Modesty and Resilience
Trade Law in a Data-Driven Economy: The Need for Modesty and Resilience Open
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, an…
View article: International Law and Transnational Legal Orders: Permeating Boundaries and Extending Social Science Encounters
International Law and Transnational Legal Orders: Permeating Boundaries and Extending Social Science Encounters Open
This Essay elaborates in three ways the call for a renewal of social science approaches to international law advanced by Daniel Abebe, Adam Chilton, and Tom Ginsburg. First, while we affirm the importance of what they call the “scientific …
View article: The RCEP: Great Power Competition and Cooperation over Trade
The RCEP: Great Power Competition and Cooperation over Trade Open
Despite being the largest free trade agreement (FTA) in the world, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is often criticized as a shallow FTA. In this essay, however, we contend that the RCEP is better understood in the co…
View article: Introduction to the Symposium on the Biden Administration and the International Legal Order
Introduction to the Symposium on the Biden Administration and the International Legal Order Open
The 2020 U.S. presidential election came at a time of eroding legitimacy and efficacy for international law and institutions. Developments such as populism and nativism, a decline of democratic institutions, and attacks on international or…
View article: Introduction To Symposium on Drug Decriminalization, Legalization and International Law
Introduction To Symposium on Drug Decriminalization, Legalization and International Law Open
The UN Drug Conventions have nearly universal membership. For decades, the Conventions were widely interpreted as requiring signatory countries to criminalize the cultivation, distribution, sale, and possession of the substances that the C…
View article: Introduction to the Symposium on the Biden Administration and the International Legal Order
Introduction to the Symposium on the Biden Administration and the International Legal Order Open
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View article: Defining Crimes in a Global Age: Criminalization as a Transnational Legal Process
Defining Crimes in a Global Age: Criminalization as a Transnational Legal Process Open
The design of empirical research and theory-building projects in the sociolegal literature on criminalization is often premised on a presumed dichotomy between domestic and international planes of criminal lawmaking. However, in a global e…
View article: Defining Crimes in a Global Age: Criminalization as a Transnational Legal Process
Defining Crimes in a Global Age: Criminalization as a Transnational Legal Process Open
The design of empirical research and theory-building projects in the sociolegal literature on criminalization is often premised on a presumed dichotomy between domestic and international planes of criminal lawmaking. However, in a global e…