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This book provides a new framework for understanding the development of trade, investment, and intellectual property law in emerging powers and globally. It will appeal to a wide audience of policymakers, students, and scholars across disciplines regarding the implications of the rise of China, India, and Brazil.
List of contents
Part I. Legal Capacity and Transnational Legal Orders: 1. Introduction: emerging powers and the transnational legal ordering of trade; 2. Building trade law capacity in emerging powers: its implications; 3. The challenges of international trade law; Part II. The Cases of Brazil, India, and China: 4. Building legal capacity and adapting state institutions in Brazil with Michelle Ratton Sanchez Badin; 5. India: an emerging giant's transformation and its implications with James Nedumpara and Aseema Sinha; 6. How China took on the United States and Europe at the WTO with Henry Gao; 7. A new Chinese economic law order? with Henry Gao; Part III. The Future of the Transnational Legal Order for Trade: 8. Why U.S. disenchantment? Managing the interface; 9. Conclusion: going forward.
About the author
Gregory Shaffer is Chancellor's Professor at the University of California–Irvine. His publications include 9 books and over 100 articles and book chapters, including Constitution-Making and Transnational Legal Order (with Ginsburg and Halliday, 2019), Transnational Legal Orders (with Halliday, 2015), and Transnational Legal Ordering and State Change (2013).
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This book provides a new framework for understanding the development of trade, investment, and intellectual property law in emerging powers and globally. It will appeal to a wide audience of policymakers, students, and scholars across disciplines regarding the implications of the rise of China, India, and Brazil.
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'Professor Shaffer's work eloquently illuminates a complex but vital subject – the law's power to shape a more inclusive model of transnational trade. By examining how and by whom the rules have been written and rewritten, he details the ways in which emerging economies such as Brazil, China, and India can spur the creation of capabilities needed to help to reform and rebuild the multilateral trading system, so that the benefits of trade accrue to all. This is an important contribution to our understanding of recent geopolitical history and the forces that will continue to define our future.' Roberto Azevêdo, Director-General of the World Trade Organization (2013–20) and Ambassador of Brazil to the WTO (2008–13)
