International Economic Dispute Settlement and Digital Trade in Services : Useful Multilateral Principles for the Emerging Global Regulatory Landscape?

Lionnet, Philippe (2021). International Economic Dispute Settlement and Digital Trade in Services : Useful Multilateral Principles for the Emerging Global Regulatory Landscape? In: Elsig, Manfred; Polanco, Rodrigo; van den Bossche, Peter (eds.) International Economic Dispute Settlement. Demise or Transformation? World Trade Forum (pp. 323-349). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 10.1017/9781108966122.013

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That multilateralism is at risk has become a truism underlying global politics and, more specifically, the international regulation of trade. Besides the ongoing escalation of measures impeding international trade between trading nations, a decisive and well-recognized risk to economic multilateralism as we know it also stems from the growing emergence of plurilateral regulation formats. Governments are seeking to deepen international regulation in areas where they find common interests – and such progress has proven to be very difficult to achieve in large negotiation formats after the successful conclusion of the WTO Uruguay Round. The most disputed issues fall in an area of international trade law, which is directly concerned with state sovereignty and disciplines on – in the language of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) – domestic regulation. The rules that are decided and implemented in jurisdictions that regulate economic activities are highly normative political decisions and notoriously tricky to assess with regards to their impact on cross-border commercial exchanges.

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

UniBE Contributor:

Lionnet, Philippe Kevin

Subjects:

300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 320 Political science
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 330 Economics
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 340 Law
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 380 Commerce, communications & transportation

ISBN:

978-1-1089-6612-2

Series:

World Trade Forum

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Language:

English

Submitter:

Philippe Kevin Lionnet

Date Deposited:

25 Apr 2023 12:47

Last Modified:

25 Apr 2023 12:47

Publisher DOI:

10.1017/9781108966122.013

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/178013

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/178013

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