World Trade Law after Neoliberalism

Andrew Lang is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the London School of Economics, teaching Public International Law, with a specialty in International Economic Law. He is a co-founder, with Colin Picker, of the Society of International Economic Law. He sits on the Editorial Boards of the Modern Law Review, the Journal of International Economic Law and the Law and Development Review, and is a Book Review Editor for the International and Comparative Law Quarterly. He has taught on the World Trade Institute's Masters of International Law and Economics (MILE) program, the University of Barcelona's IELPO course, as well as the IIEM Academy of International Trade Law in Macau. Andrew has a combined BA/ LLB degree from the University of Sydney, receiving the University Medal in both degrees. His PhD is from the University of Cambridge, graduating in May 2005. From 2004-2006, he was the Gott Research Fellow in Law at Trinity Hall, at the University of Cambridge.

• 1. Introduction ; REGIME ENCOUNTERS: TRADE AND HUMAN RIGHTS ; 2. Trade and Human Rights in Historical Perspective ; 3. The Global Justice Movement ; 4. Inter-regime Contestation ; 5. The Limits of Coherence ; THE TRADE REGIME AND THE NEOLIBERAL TURN ; 6. Against Objectivism ; 7. Embedded Liberalism and Purposive Law ; 8. Neoliberalism and the Formal-technical Turn ; 9. Trade in Services ; CONCLUSION ; 10. Conclusion: After Neoliberalism?

Lang utilizes historical narrative to give us a well organized and easy-to-read overview of the evolution of international trade agreements after the Second World War ... Lang's contribution to the analysis of the impact of economic globalization and neo-liberalism on the structure of economic governance is both methodologically and conceptually distinctive.