Book contents
- Reviews
- Emerging Powers and the World Trading System
- Emerging Powers and the World Trading System
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface: The Project and Its Methodology
- Part I Legal Capacity and Transnational Legal Orders
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Theory: Building Trade Law Capacity in Emerging Powers and Its Implications
- 3 The Challenges of International Trade Law
- Part II The Cases of Brazil, India, and China
- Part III The Future of the Transnational Legal Order for Trade
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
3 - The Challenges of International Trade Law
from Part I - Legal Capacity and Transnational Legal Orders
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 July 2021
- Reviews
- Emerging Powers and the World Trading System
- Emerging Powers and the World Trading System
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface: The Project and Its Methodology
- Part I Legal Capacity and Transnational Legal Orders
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Theory: Building Trade Law Capacity in Emerging Powers and Its Implications
- 3 The Challenges of International Trade Law
- Part II The Cases of Brazil, India, and China
- Part III The Future of the Transnational Legal Order for Trade
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
Summary
The WTO created incentives for Brazil, India, and China to develop trade law capacity. But before turning to how they invested in developing it, we should recognize the major challenges posed to effective participation in international trade negotiations, monitoring, and dispute settlement in the WTO and the broader ecology of the trading system. Only then will we have a better sense of how differences in legal capacity matter in practice. Building trade law capacity is not a simple matter. The demands are significant and are beyond many countries’ hopes, although much progress has been made since the WTO’s creation, including through collective efforts.1 As the scope of trade agreements expanded and as countries negotiated in other fora, creating parallel dispute settlement mechanisms, the challenges grew.
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- Emerging Powers and the World Trading SystemThe Past and Future of International Economic Law, pp. 58 - 78Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021