Irrespective of the diverse stances taken on the effect of the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity in the external relations context, since its wording is fairly open-ended, it is clear to all observers that the Convention's impact will largely depend on how it is implemented domestically....

New technologies, in particular those stemming from digitisation, allow amongst other things the production of perfect copies, instantaneous and ubiquitous distribution of and easy access to information with no real location restrictions. The effects of these technological advances have largely...

Following the recent UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, the first wave of scholarly work has focused on clarifying the interface between the Convention and the WTO Agreements. Building upon these analyses, the present article takes however...

Digital trade is one of the very few areas of trade law, where one can observe a willingness shared by the international community to move forward and actively engage in new rule-making. The article contextualizes and explores this development by looking at the relevant e-commerce provisions in...

The common mantra in telecommunications regulatory fora (be it national, regional or international) now goes along the lines of 'deregulation-good; regulation-bad' and competition is said to be the ultimate answer to basically every question. A generalised dictum like this is in itself suspicious...

The chapter starts with a brief look into disruptive technologies and discusses the Internet as a discrete type of general purpose technology (GPT). It then explores the sweeping effects of digitization at different levels of the economy and on trade and trade policies. In order to understand...

Digital technologies, taken as a broad category of technological inventions and applications, can be said to fall under the rare class of “disruptive technologies” that trigger profound societal transformations. This may demand changes in law and policy that go beyond incremental adjustment...

Trade and culture have had and continue to have a highly contentious relationship, as trade has often been perceived as a peril to the protection and promotion of national cultures, and more broadly, as a channel of commodifying and homogenizing culture.1 The political economy of the interfaces...

This editorial introduces ten research articles, which form part of this special issue, exploring the governance of “European values” inside data flows. Protecting fundamental human rights and critical public interests that undergird European societies in a global digital ecosystem poses...