Reorienting International Economic Law for the Digital Economy
Towards Digital Development
Reorienting International Economic Law for the Digital Economy
Towards Digital Development
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This book examines the evolving role of international economic law in addressing two interrelated challenges of the 21st century: enabling digital development and bridging the digital divide.
The rapid digitalisation of the economy has generated significant challenges, including a deepening global digital and data divide and a persistent lack of inclusive digital development. Confronting these challenges head on, this pioneering edited volume brings together experts across different legal subfields, geographies, and disciplines to examine the role and relevance of international economic law in bridging the global digital divide and enabling digital development, particularly from the perspective of the Global South.
The contributions are anchored in a distinctive analytical framework that traces future directions through which international economic law interacts with digital development, demonstrating how it may function as a constraint, fade into irrelevance, or eventually act as an enabler. The chapters focus on a broad range of areas, including international trade, investment, tax, development, competition, finance and related regulatory and policy domains; they consider multilateral, regional, and plurilateral frameworks; and draw on a plurality of perspectives from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.
The authors employ a wide range of methodological approaches to address issues such as digital sovereignty and digital industrial policy, cross-border data flows and digital global value chains, competition in data markets, AI governance, financial inclusion, and the sustainability-digitalisation nexus.
This book speaks to scholars, policymakers, and practitioners in international economic law, development studies, and technology law who seek theoretical and pragmatic pathways for reorienting international economic law as a tool for equitable, sustainable, and meaningful digital development.
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Table of Contents
Part I: International Economic Law and Digital Development: From Obstacle to Enabler?
2. The Transnational Legal Ordering of Digital Economies: Opportunities and Constraints for a Development Focus, Gregory Shaffer (Georgetown University, USA)
3. From Constraint to Enabler: Integrating Human Rights Perspectives in International Economic Law, Neha Mishra (the Graduate Institute, Switzerland)
4. International Investment Law: A Constraint, an Enabler, or Irrelevant to Overcome the Digital Divide?, Rodrigo Polanco (World Trade Institute, Switzerland)
5. International Tax Law, Digital Divide and Digital Development, Irma Mosquera Valderrama and Tofigh Hasen Nezhad Nisi (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
Part II: The Making and Re-Making of International Economic Law in the Global and Regional Digital Economy
6. Digital Trade Rulemaking across Preferential Agreements and the Prospect of Economic Development, Mira Burri (University of Lucerne, Switzerland)
7. Digital Industrial Policies and New International Economic Agreements: Paving the Way Towards Digital Transformation, Georgios Dimitropoulos and Sehrish Javid (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar)
8. Emerging Powers and the Shaping of International Economic Law for Digital Development, Arindrajit Basu (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
9. Trade Law, Industrial Policy, and the Middle Power Dilemma: Taiwan in Global Semiconductor Governance, Han-Wei Liu (Singapore Management University ) and Ching-Fu Lin (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
10. Competition between the United States and China on the Process of Digitalisation in Africa: An International Economic Law Perspective, Kehinde Olaoye (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar)
11. Brazil's Data-Centred Pathway to Autonomy and Development: Navigating International Economic Law and Domestic Policy Space, Lucas Tasquetto (Federal University of ABC, Brazil), Marilia Maciel (DiploFoundation) and Fabio Morosini (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Part III: Emerging Technologies, Future Issues: New Approaches to Bridging Digital Divide and Enabling Digital Development
12. Generative AI, Text Cultures, and Inclusive Digital Development, George Mikros (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar)
13. Digital Transformation Strategies in the Financial Sector: An Assessment Framework, Dalal Aassouli (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar)
14. Policy Certainty and Developing Nations Integrationinto Digital Global Value Chains, Emmanouil Chatzikonstantinou (Georgetown University, Qatar)
15. Digitalisation–Employment Nexus in the New Economic Internationalism: Prospects for Developing Countries and Least Developed Countries, Amna Zaman (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar)
16. Leveraging Competition Law to Bridge the Digital Divide: Lessons from the AfCFTA Competition Protocol, Franziska Sucker (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
17. Digital Security as (Trans)National Security: The Importance of a Resilient Security Architecture for Addressing the Digital Divide, Alexandros Bakos (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar)
18. International Economic Law for the Digital Transformation: A Conclusion, Neha Mishra (the Graduate Institute, Switzerland) and Georgios Dimitropoulos (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar)
Product details
| Published | 18 Feb 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 464 |
| ISBN | 9781048000603 |
| Imprint | Hart Publishing |
| Series | Studies in International Trade and Investment Law |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |

























