Trade Governance in the Digital Age: World Trade Forum - Hardcover

9781107022430: Trade Governance in the Digital Age: World Trade Forum

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107022436 ISBN 13: 9781107022430

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

The development of new digital technologies has resulted in significant transformations in daily life, from the arrival of online shopping to more fundamental changes in the ways we work and communicate. Many of these changes raise questions that transcend market access and liberalisation, and demand cooperation and coherent regulatory design. International trade regulation has hitherto not reacted in a forward-looking manner to the digital revolution and, particularly at the multilateral level, legal engineering has yielded few tangible results. This book examines whether WTO laws possess the necessary flexibility and resilience to accommodate the changes brought about by burgeoning digital trade. By revealing both the potential and the limitations of the WTO framework, it provides a broad picture of the interaction between digital technologies and trade regulation, links the often disconnected discourses of international trade law, intellectual property and cyberlaw and explores discrete problems in different domains of global trade regulation.

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Book Description:

The development of the Internet has raised various questions regarding international trade regulation. This book addresses these questions by looking at concrete WTO law issues and by clarifying the broader governance implications. The results will be valuable to academics and policymakers working in trade, intellectual property and cyberlaw.

About the Author:

Mira Burri is a senior research fellow at the World Trade Institute and Lecturer in International Media Law at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Thomas Cottier is Professor of European and International Economic Law at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is Managing Director of both the World Trade Institute and of the Institute of European and International Economic Law.

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