Anthem Press World Trade and Investment Law Reimagined: A Progressive Agenda for an Inclusive Globalization (Anthem IGLP Rethinking Global Law and Policy Series)

World trade and investment law is in crisis: new and progressive ideas are needed. Rules that facilitated globalization and supported global economic growth are being challenged. A system of global governance that once seemed secure is now at risk as the United States ignores the rules while developing countries struggle to escape restrictions. Some want to tear global institutions and agreements down while others try desperately to maintain the status quo. Rejecting both options, a group of trade and investment law experts from 10 countries, South and North, have joined hands to propose ideas for a new world trade and investment law that would maintain global growth while distributing costs and benefi ts more fairly. Paying special attention to those who have suffered from trade dislocation and to restrictions that have hampered innovative growth strategies in developing countries, they outline a progressive trade and investment law agenda in World Trade and Investment Law Reimagined. Review “At a time when the global trading order is under assault, this volume offers a fresh perspective, reminding us that the sources of discontent extend well beyond shifting geopolitics and of the wide range of challenges that must be addressed.” ―Mark Wu, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, USA “What does a progressive trade and investment agenda look like? How can international economic regimes tolerate more heterodoxy and pluralism? If states are to recapture policy space, this book could not be more timely. Its short and readable essays spark fresh thinking about routes previously foreclosed.” ―David Schneiderman, Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada “Twenty-one leading progressive voices rethink the framework for global economic life. A must-read for scholars and policy makers frustrated by the lack of real alternatives to a global economy tilted toward the wealthy and the powerful.” ―David Kennedy, Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School, USA “World Trade and Investment Law Reimagined is a timely and exceptional volume on ways to address the current crisis in the liberal international order to achieve sustainable and inclusive economic globalization.” ―B. S. Chimni, Professor of International Law Emeritus, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India “Eschewing extreme forms of economic nationalism, on the one hand, and austere forms of neo-liberalism, on the other, this book, through a rich and invigorating diversity of perspectives, proposes a new progressive agenda for international trade and investment law that would integrate trade and social policy more fully so as to more broadly distribute the gains from trade.” ―Michael Trebilcock, University Professor and Professor of Law, University of Toronto, Canada Book Description Ideas for a new and progressive trade and investment regime About the Author Alvaro Santos is Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Center for the Advancement of the Rule of Law in the Americas at Georgetown University Law Center, USA. Chantal Thomas is the Radice Family Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, USA, and Director of its Clarke Initiative for Law and Development in the Middle East and North Africa. David Trubek is the Voss-Bascom Professor of Law and Dean of International Studies Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and Senior Research Fellow at Harvard Law School, USA.