The chapter explores the far-reaching effects of the digital transformation on trade and trade law. It first sketches the state of affairs under the multilateral forum of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and, second, analyzes the more de- liberate regulatory responses to the challenges of...

This is a contribution to the AJIL Unbound Symposium on digital trade and international law. The essay unveils the fluidity of the topic of digital trade—both from a technological and a policy-legal perspective and addresses the questions of what “digital trade” is and more importantly how...

After a year of record international trade in 2022, it is uncertain whether the future of the global economy is fragmentation or a new institutional structure. The challenges are to re-establish a dispute resolution mechanism, as the WTO process currently allows decisions to be appealed into...

This Chapter considers how domestic cybersecurity measures interact with the international trade law regime. To that end this chapter discusses the relationship between cybersecurity and the international trade law regime. In so doing, it reveals some of the gaps associated with applying the...

This chapter examines the often-cited distinction between private international law and public international law in the context of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (‘CISG’). The traditional view holds that private and public international law are separate...

The article explores the transformations triggered by digitalization in the domain of global trade law and seeks to evaluate the nature and the effects of the unfolding legal adaptation in this field of international law. For this purpose, the article starts by mapping the sweeping effects of...

The world, in addition to existing inequalities, also suffers from a digital-data divide. Some countries and classes of people have obtained outsized benefits from digitization whereas many others have either not received promised benefits or have even suffered due to job/revenue loss, reduction...

The present article has adopted a subjective and analytical approach in doing justice to the topic at hand. The subject of International Commercial Arbitration has a broad scope, though the research is limited to some pertinent jurisdictional issues, contract laws of nation-states, and...

Appraises the domestication and implementation, by states, of Article 23 of the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration regarding the scope and contents statements of claim and defence, and their amendments, in arbitral proceedings