Trade Governance in the Digital Age (Preface)

Burri, Mira; Cottier, Thomas (2012). Trade Governance in the Digital Age (Preface). In: Burri, Mira; Cottier, Thomas (eds.) Trade governance in the digital age (xxi-xxii). 978-1-107-02243-0: Cambridge University Press

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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; 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.

Item Type:

Book Section (Book Chapter)

Division/Institute:

02 Faculty of Law > Department of Economic Law > World Trade Institute
10 Strategic Research Centers > World Trade Institute

02 Faculty of Law > Department of Economic Law > NCCR International Trade Regulation
02 Faculty of Law > Department of Economic Law > Institute of European and International Economic Law

UniBE Contributor:

Burri, Tihomira, Cottier, Thomas

Subjects:

300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 340 Law

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Language:

English

Submitter:

Tihomira Burri

Date Deposited:

20 Jun 2014 13:57

Last Modified:

02 Mar 2023 23:24

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.51568

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/51568

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