Trade policy is formulated through a rather complex decision-making process that involves two-way interactions between actors in public and private sectors. Such interactions are of particular importance in resolving trade controversies in the information and communication technology (ICT)...

The interpretation of schedules has been the subject of several panel and Appellate Body reports in recent years, and it is anticipated that the schedules related to information and communication technologies will increasingly be challenged before the dispute settlement body. The recent...

As the framing chapter of a forthcoming volume on Artificial Intelligence and International Economic Law, this paper introduces three cross-cutting themes that illustrate the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and international economic law (IEL): disruption, regulation, and...

The TiSA negotiations will face a dilemma between two conflicting positions: on the one hand, whether TiSA can promise to yield gains through new business opportunities will depend on the political will of RGFs members to deal with the need for introducing creative modalities to the...

This paper identifies regulators’ increasing discretionary practices in the innovation sectors and examines whether international economic law is prepared for this supervisory evolution. As demonstrated by the three cases studied, very often technology laws themselves do not entail sufficient...

This book addresses the challenges of datafication through the lens of international economic law. We are undergoing a wave of datafication practices. If such practices simply continue to evolve without being examined and repaired along the existing path of development, the same issues will...

Although a number of WTO Members have made commitments to television services sector in the initial and revised offers during the Doha Round, the regime offered still appears extremely restrictive. As evidenced by the China-Hongkong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA) and the EU...