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 is not the first author to have traced the ideational changes that contributed to the neoliberal transformation of trade law. However, it seems fair to say that no other author has paid such careful attention to the role of legal ideas in this story. Lang shows how changing ideas about trade have been linked to changing modes of legal analysis. He illustrates these changes with concrete examples taken from the decisions of GATT and WTO adjudicative bodies. And, in doing so, he demonstrates how legal ideas have had broader ideational and material consequences.