A Post-WTO International Legal Order

Part I: The Post-WTO: Introduction.- An Introduction to Utopian and Dystopian Post-WTO Regimes and Environments.- Part II: The Post-WTO: Macro and Theoretical Perspectives.- To Dystopia and Beyond: The WTO in a Warming Megaregional World.- Narrowed Down Utopia: Adjusting the WTO to a Changing Trade Environment.- Waiting for Cordell Hull.- GAIA 2048-A 'Glocal Agency in Anthropocene': Cognitive and Institutional Change as 'Legal Science Fiction'.- If the WTO Were to Break Down Completely, Would We Stoop and Build It Up with Worn-Out Tools?.- Part III: The Post-WTO: Dispute Settlement.- The EU Approach to Overcome the WTO Dispute Settlement Vacuum: Article 25 DSU Interim Appeal Arbitration as a Bridge Between Renovation and Innovation.- Like a Rolling Stone: Exploring Viable Options for the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism to Evolve Forward in the Post-WTO Era.- What Can We Learn from Our Struggling Cousin?: Recent Discussions on Reform of International Investment Law and Investment Dispute Settlement Proceedings.- Reaching for Utopia, Geneva as Inspiration for Investment Disputes?.- A Possible Hierarchy of Dispute Settlement Systems?.- Part IV: The Post-WTO: Specific International Economic Law Issues.- The Concern with Non-concerns: For the End of Trade Dystopia.- The Rise of Import Substitution Subsidies and Local Content Requirements in a Dystopian WTO 2.0 Regime.- A Development-Driven Post WTO World.- Saving the World Trade Order from the Bottom Up: A Role for Preferential Trade Agreements.- A New International Trade Framework for Digital Assets.

Prof. Meredith Lewis Kolsky joined the Faculty of Law in January 2005. Meredith is the Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law. She teaches international trade law at the undergraduate and master's level and has recently provided international trade law training to Indonesian law professors as well as to New Zealand and Vietnamese government officials. Meredith is a member of the International Trade Law Committee of the International Law Association; a Founding Executive Committee member and current Executive Vice President of the Society of International Economic Law; and a member of the Asian WTO Research Network. Before joining Victoria, Meredith was a senior associate practising litigation and international trade with Shearman & Sterling LLP in Washington DC and Tokyo. Her practice included defending foreign corporations in antidumping, countervailing duty, and safeguard actions; counselling corporations and foreign governments on a wide variety of WTO and NAFTA-related issues; and representing clients in commercial litigation and arbitration. Meredith's research interests include international economic law; international dispute settlement; and alternative dispute resolution.

Prof. Junji Nakagwa has written extensively in the field of international economic law. His publications include: Commentaries on the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) (Japan Tariff Association, 2019, in Japanese); Asian Perspectives on International Investment Law (ed., Routledge, 2019); Nationalization, Natural Resources and International Investment Law (Routledge, 2017); Transparency in International Trade and Investment Dispute Settlement (ed., Routledge, 2013); WTO: Beyond Trade Liberalization (Iwanami shoten, 2013, in Japanese); International Harmonization of Economic Regulation (Oxford University Press, 2011), Multilateralism and Regionalism in Global Economic Governance (ed., Routledge, 2011); Anti-Dumping Laws and