How Trade Law Changed: Why it Should Change Again

Linarelli, John

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
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1435016
• Publisher URL: http://heinonline.org/HOL/Index?index=journals/mercer&collection=journals