Concept Design of a Twenty-First Century Preferential Trade Agreement

Kathleen Claussen is Professor of Law at Georgetown University. She is the author of more than 40 articles and essays concerning trade, investment, and international dispute settlement, among other related research areas. She has also served as counsel or arbitrator in over two dozen international disputes. Among other leadership roles, she has served on the Executive Council and Executive Committee of the American Society of International Law and is co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Economic Law. Manfred Elsig is full professor of International Relations at the World Trade Institute, University of Bern. His research focuses on international political economy, international organizations, international courts, preferential trade agreements, and European trade policy. He is the co-editor of Governing the WTO: Past, Present and Beyond Doha (CUP, 2011), Assessing the World Trade Organization: Fit for Purpose? (CUP 2017) and The Shifting Landscape of Global Trade Governance (CUP 2019). Rodrigo Polanco is a senior researcher, lecturer and academic coordinator at the World Trade Institute, University of Bern, a Legal Adviser at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, and a visiting professor at University de Chile. He holds a Bachelor and a Master of Laws (University of Chile), an LL.M. in International Legal Studies (New York University) and a Ph.D. in Law (University of Bern). He has published extensively as an author and editor in leading international academic publishers and journals on investment, trade, tax and environmental law.

• 1. Introduction: thinking about the future design of preferential trade agreements Kathleen Claussen, Manfred Elsig and Rodrigo Polanco; 2. Preferential frontiers in services trade governance Martin Roy and Pierre Sauvé; 3. TBT and SPS in PTAs: the recent past and the near future Sebastian Klotz and Arthur Appleton; 4. Trade facilitation in preferential trade agreements: the edge of a New Frontier? Nora Neufeld; 5. The future design of intellectual property provisions in preferential trade agreements: three propositions Maria Vasquez Callo-Müller, Kholofelo Kugler, Marine Roux, Yinuo Liu, and Thomas Cottier; 6. Government Procurement in 21st Century PTAs Anirudh Shingal and Maria Anna Corvaglia; 7. Digital trade: new design elements in preferential trade agreements Mira Burri; 8. Recent trends and future developments with regard to Foreign investment in PTAs Federico Ortino; 9. Subsidies and future PTAs: from market distortions to legitimate policy goals? Leopoldo Biffi, Yuliia Kucheriava and Shailja Singh; 10. The concept design of International rules on State intervention in the economy Luca Rubini; 11. Global value Chains: the road to resilience Selina Hauser, Israel Gutierrez and Christian Winkler; 12. On the move? Mode 4 and the temporary movement of natural persons in preferential trade agreements Marion Panizzon and Amanda Bisong; 13. The trade and labour Nexus: envisioning the design and implementation of future labour chapters in PTAs Gregory Felder, Kirthana Ganeson, Martin Jehli and Patrick Wagner; 14. Taking climate change seriously in the design of trade agreements Carla Brandi, Kateryna Holzer, Jean-Frederic Morin and Harro Van Asselt; 15. Gender equality in trade agreements: the old, the new and the future Anoush der Boghossian, Amrita Bahri and Lolita Laperle-Forget; 16. Dispute settlement Kathleen Claussen; 17. Regulatory convergence in preferential trade agreements: what does the future hold? Rodrigo Polanco.