Evaluating and Adapting the Capacity of the International Legal System to Manage Emergent Challenges:  Sustainable Development and Digital Commerce

This event is hosted by the Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law.

About the event

There is a growing need for integrated policy and law at the intersection between trade and important subjects that had not yet become salient when multilateral trade rules were first made in 1947, or when largely restated at the time of the establishment of the WTO in 1995.  These subjects include sustainable development and digital commerce. The world's capacity for effective management of these critical issues is hampered by an international governance system that is not fit for purpose.  This presentation will briefly describe the need for greater international legal management in the sustainable development and digital commerce contexts, and focus on the modifications required for the international trade law system, within the broader framework of the general international law system, to address this need.  

 

About the speaker

Joel P. Trachtman is Professor of International Law and Henry Braker Professor of Commercial Law at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. The author of seven books, editor of five books, and author of over 80 academic articles and 55 chapters on international law, he has served as a member of the Boards of the American Journal of International Law, the European Journal of International Law, and the Journal of International Economic Law.  He has consulted for governments and international organizations, including the United Nations, the World Bank, and the OECD, and has been a visiting professor at Basel, Bocconi, Hamburg, Harvard, Hebrew, Hong Kong, MGIMO, Strathmore, Swansea, and Pretoria universities.  Recently he has co-led the Remaking Trade Project, which seeks to map an agenda to improve the contributions of the world trade system to sustainable development.  

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