How Trade Law Changed: Why it Should Change Again

Linarelli, John

How Trade Law Changed: Why it Should Change Again

Linarelli, John

Authors

John Linarelli

Abstract

One of the most enjoyable moments I have as an academic lawyer is when students, who have had limited exposure to the law on international economics and commerce, have the profound moment when they realize how many rules and institutions are at work in these fields. Students seem to come into the course thinking international exchange occurs in a Hobbesian state of nature. A few weeks into the course, I start to ask for the students' views on whether the law is more developed internationally than domestically. Their attempts to answer this question become an opportunity to reflect on the law and its aims. I hope they leave my course with an appreciation of the substantial public and private law institutions at work in the global order. We all have some form of "ownership" of these institutions, not in the form we find in states, but clearly something.

Citation

Linarelli, J. (2014). How Trade Law Changed: Why it Should Change Again. Mercer law review, 65(3), 621-668

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Oct 23, 2013
Publication Date	Mar 1, 2014
Deposit Date	Mar 23, 2015
Publicly Available Date	Apr 2, 2015
Journal	Mercer law review.
Print ISSN	0025-987X
Publisher	Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	65
Issue	3
Pages	621-668
Publisher URL	http://heinonline.org/HOL/Index?index=journals/mercer&collection=journals