Consent and Trade

Frank J. Garcia is Professor of Law and Dean's Global Fund Scholar at the Boston College Law School, Massachusetts. A Fulbright Scholar, he has lectured widely on globalization and international economic law in Europe, South America and the Asia/Pacific region. Professor Garcia has held various leadership positions within the American Society of International Law, and currently sits on the editorial board of the Journal of International Economic Law, where he is Chief Book Review Editor. He is the author, most recently, of Global Justice and International Economic Law: Three Takes (Cambridge, 2013).

• Introduction; 1. Consent and trade; 2. Consent, oppression, and contemporary trade agreements; 3. (Re)building trade agreements; 4. Consensual trade and the twenty-first-century global economy; Conclusion; Index.

'Frank J. Garcia has given us a splendid book. In its insistence that the legitimacy and efficacy of trade law rests on true consent, in its rejection of empty reassurances based on a sterile view of the workings of the market, in its thorough and careful development of its examples, in its hope for a new way of thinking that may help trade contribute to more full and meaningful lives for people around the globe, and in its fundamental decency, this is the kind of economic thinking we have been long awaiting.' James Boyd White, Hart Wright Professor of Law Emeritus and Professor of English Emeritus, University of Michigan