Trade, Law and Development

25/02/2021

The Editorial Board of Trade, Law and Development is delighted to announce that the Winter ‘20 issue (Vol. 12, No. 2) has been published on the website. It is a General Issue, covering a plethora of issues in international trade law.

We would like to express our gratitude to our Contributors -

1. Mr. Antony Taubman (Director, Intellectual Property, Government Procurement and Competition Division, World Trade Organization)
2. Dr. Rafael Leal-Arcas, Mr. Samuel Balzano, Mr. jakkrit deethae, Ms. Tanvir Rai Singh & Ms. Kristina Skybova (Queen Mary University of London)
3. Prof. Julia Ya Qin (Wayne State University)
4. Dr. Indira Carr (University of Surrey)
5. Dr. Andrew Mitchell (Monash University), Mr. Dean Merriman (Deloitte Australia)
6. Dr. Donatella Alessandrini (University of Kent)
7. Dr. Delroy Beckford (University of the West Indies)

The issue can be accessed at: https://lnkd.in/eY_HFqB. We invite any feedback on the contents of the issue on editors[at]tradelawdevelopment[dot]com.

Trade, Law and Development is a bi-annual, student-run, academic journal published by National Law University, Jodhpur, INDIA. TL&D seeks to provide a forum for scholarly discussion on issues of law, international trade, environment and development.

09/02/2021

The Board of Editors of Trade, Law and Development is pleased to invite original, unpublished manuscripts for publication in the Summer ’21 special issue of the Journal (Vol. 13, No. 1) in the form of Articles, Notes, Comments and Book Reviews.

The theme for this special issue is "Trade and Technology: Rebooting Global Trade for the Digital Millennium".

14/08/2020

In a recent notice to all nationally chartered banks in the United States, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency allowed the banks to provide custody services for cryptocurrencies. Previously, custody of digital assets was given to specialist firms such as Coinbase. This move marks a major development in the crypto industry in the sense that more and more entities are embracing the distributed ledger technology (DLT).

This points to the increasing appeal for DLT as a means of trade to service suppliers and consumers. Weiwei Zhang minutely analyses the changes affected in the service industry and the relevancy of GATS provisions in regulating the newly popular entrant in the services market in our latest Issue 12.1.

The article can be found at:

Blockchain: Replacing, Eliminating and Creating Trade in Services

11/08/2020

The outbreak of COVID-19 has seen a shift towards online services and has lead to the imposition of travel bans, affecting Mode 4 services. In light of this, will more water be added to dilute the existing GATS commitments? Will the GATS, the sleeping beauty, be woken up?

For a holistic understanding of the contemporary issues under the GATS, check out the article by Rudolf Adlung in our latest Issue 12.1, wherein he has proposed that it is pertinent to undertake multilateral negotiations and re-examine the GATS framework.

The article can be found at:

The GATS – A Sleeping Beauty?

08/08/2020

Check out our latest Issue 12.1 (July ’20), in which Dr. Andreas Maurer presents a compendious piece exploring the various statistical tools available to access trade in services, including the OECD-WTO Balanced Trade in Services Dataset, and the WTO's Trade in Services Data by Mode of Supply, making it a must-read for all those interested in trade law!

The article can be found at: https://lnkd.in/ea8WjzS

28/07/2020

Recently, the United States suspended fraught international tax negotiations with European countries and warned that it will retaliate with sanctions if they move forward with plans to impose the new digital service tax on American technology giants like Amazon.com, Facebook and Google. Could this failure at negotiations mean another trade war just as the world begins to recover from the pandemic?

For more clarity on the fate and feasibility of a global tax agreement, check out our Special Issue 12.1 (July’ 20) in which Petros Mavroidis brilliantly highlights the trade-related concerns of this international digital tax issue by using the French Digital Services Tax as a stress-test for GATS obligations at the World Trade Organization - WTO.

The article can be found at:

15/07/2020

We are pleased to announce the publication of Special Issue 12.1. This issue seeks to understand development in services trade, its advancement and its scope. We are very grateful to all our contributors!
The Editorial for this issue has been written by Ipsiata Gupta and Radhika Parthasarathy

The issue is headlined by noted authors, namely:

1. Dr. Rudolf Adlung (Independent Trade Policy Analyst)
2. Prof. Petros C. Mavroidis (Columbia Law School)
3. Dr. Andreas Maurer (World Trade Organisation)
4. Prof. Markus Krajewski (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
5. Dr. Hildegunn Nordas (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
6. Dr. Weiwei ZHANG (Sidley Austin LLP)
7. Prof. Mira Burri (University of Lucerne, Switzerland)
8. Dr. Pralok Gupta & Ms. Sunayana Sasmal (Centre for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade)
9. Dr. Ben Shepherd (Developing Trade Consultants)
10. Ms. Sunanda Tewari & Mr. Prakhar Bhardwaj (Centre for Trade and Investment Law, India)
11. Dr. Anirudh Shingal (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations)

The issue may be accessed at: https://lnkd.in/eP3M5SE

We look forward to all feedback and suggestions!

30/05/2020

We are pleased to invite original, unpublished manuscripts for publication in the Winter ’20 issue of the Journal (Vol. 12, No. 2) in the form of Articles, Notes, Comments and Book Reviews.

Manuscripts received by August 15, 2020 pertaining to any area within the purview of international economic law will be reviewed for publication in the Winter ’20 issue.

Manuscripts may be submitted via e-mail ([email protected]) or ExpressO.

For submission guidelines, please visit: https://lnkd.in/g8NM_WT

We look forward to your submissions!

02/04/2020

The Editorial Board of Trade, Law and Development is pleased to announce that the Winter ‘19 issue (Vol. 11, No. 2) has been published on the website. It is a General Issue, covering a plethora of issues in international economic law.
We would like to express our gratitude to all our contributors.

We are pleased to publish our Guest Editorial written by Yonov F. Agah (Deputy Director-General, World Trade Organization).

This issue is further headlined by noted authors, namely:

1) Dr. V.S. Seshadri (former Ambassador of India to Slovenia and Myanmar)
2) Rafael Leal-Arcas, Danai Papadea, Rosie Richardson (Queen Mary University of London)
3) Joshua P. Meltzer (Brookings Institution)
4) Jesse Liss (Rutgers University)
5) Alisher Umirdinov (Nagoya University of Economics, Japan) & Valijon Turakulov (Inha University, South Korea)
6) Alec Dawson (EIA International)
7) Michael Goodyear (University of Michigan Law School)
8) Faris Nasrallah (Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England & Wales)

The issue can be accessed on the link below.
http://www.tradelawdevelopment.com/index.php/tld/issue/current

We would appreciate all feedback and suggestions on the issue.

Trade, Law and Development is a bi-annual, student-run, academic journal published by National Law University, Jodhpur, INDIA. TL&D seeks to provide a forum for scholarly discussion on issues of law, international trade, environment and development.

13/02/2020

The Editorial Board of Trade, Law and Development is pleased to announce that the Summer ‘19 issue (Vol. 11, No. 1) has been published on the website. It is a Special Issue on ‘Trade Facilitation’. We are further enthused that Ms. Nora Neufeld has written the Editorial for this Issue.

We would like to express our gratitude to our Contributors –

Editorial:

Nora Neufeld (Committee on Trade Facilitation, World Trade Organization)

Articles:

Maureen Irish (University of Windsor)
Mohammad Saeed, Eleonara Salluzzi, Victoria Tuomisto et al. (International Trade Centre, Geneva)
Bipin Menon (Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, India)
Stephen Creskoff (University of Maryland)
Christina Wiederer (Technische Universität Berlin)
Hsing-Hao Wu (National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan)

The issue can be accessed on the link below. We invite any feedback on the contents of the issue on editors[at]tradelawdevelopment[dot]com.

We would further like to thank all the Editors for their hard work on this Issue, that holds a very dear place in our hearts.

The Contents of the Issue can be found here:

http://www.tradelawdevelopment.com/index.php/tld/issue/view/11%281%29%20TL%26D%202019/showToc

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Trade, Law and Development is a bi-annual, student-run, academic journal published by National Law University, Jodhpur, INDIA. TL&D seeks to provide a forum for scholarly discussion on issues of law, international trade, environment and development.

06/04/2019

TL&D was pleased to host Dr Ernst Ulrich Petersmann, Emeritus Professor from the European Institute University, Florence for a lecture series on 'Methodology Problems in International Trade, Investment and Health Law and Adjudication' from March 17-19, 2019, at the NLU Jodhpur campus.

During the lecture series, the Professor discussed contemporary problems facing the international trading system, especially those posed by the United States in relation to GATT Article XXI and WTO Appellate Body appointments, the contents of which he has discussed in his article for Issue 10.2 of TL&D. He also discussed issues in adjudication of health and investor-state disputes. Participants were made to attempt an assignment based on the issues discussed during the lectures.

We thank him for his insightful lectures and we thank the participants for attending the same.

08/03/2019

The Editorial Board of Trade, Law and Development is pleased to announce that Volume X, Issue 2 has been published on the journal's website. The issue is headlined by the contributions of Professor Petersmann, Professor Charnovitz and Professor Magraw.

We would like to express our gratitude to our Contributors:

Articles:

Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann (European University Institute, Florence)
Steve Charnovitz (George Washington University)
Daniel Magraw, Radhika Venkataraman (Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS))
Jayant Raghu Ram (Centre for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade)
Abhishek Rana (Queen Mary University of London)
Bhumika Bill (Centre for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade)

Notes and Comments:

Nicolaj Kuplewatzky (Legal Service of the European Commission)
Akhil Raina (Marie Curie Fellow and PhD Candidate at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies (KU Leuven))

The issue can be accessed on the link below. We invite any feedback on the contents of the issue on editors[at]tradelawdevelopment com

Trade, Law and Development is a bi-annual, student-run, academic journal published by National Law University, Jodhpur, INDIA. TL&D seeks to provide a forum for scholarly discussion on issues of law, international trade, environment and development.