Digital Trade
Resources
The Economics of Data and Development: Why Data is a Challenge to Trade
Aaronson, Susan Ariel. “Data Is a Development Issue.”
Centre for International Governance Innovation, Paper No. 223, 2019, (32 pages)
Aaronson, Susan Ariel“Data Is Different: Why the World Needs a New Approach to Governing Cross-Border Data Flows.”
Centre for International Governance Innovation, Paper No. 197, 2018, (36 pages)
Burri, Mira. “The Regulation of Data Flows Through Trade Agreements.”
Georgetown Journal of International Law, vol. 48, no. 1, 2017, (42 pages)
Ciuriak, Dan. “The Economics of Data: Implications for the Data-Driven Economy.”
Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2018
López González, Javier, and Janos Ferencz. “Digital Trade and Market Openness.”
OECD Trade Policy Papers, no. 217, 2018, (61 pages)
Mishra, Neha. “Building Bridges: International Trade Law, Internet Governance, and the Regulation of Data Flows.”
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Forthcoming), NUS Centre for International Law Research Paper, vol. 19, no. 09, 2018, (47 pages)
Nemoto, Taku, and Javier López González. “Digital Trade Inventory: Rules, Standards and Principles.”
OECD Trade Policy Papers, no. 251, 2021, (155 pages)
Digital Protectionism and Data Sovereignty
Aaronson, Susan Ariel. “What Are We Talking about When We Talk about Digital Protectionism?”
World Trade Review, vol. 18, no. 4, 2019, pp. 541–577, (36 pages)
Chander, Anupam. “Data Nationalism.”
Emory Law Journal, vol. 64, 2015, pp. 677–739, (63 pages)
Chander, Anupam, and Sun Haochen. “Sovereignty 2.0.”
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2021/041, 2021, (38 pages)
Chander, Anupam, and Uven P. Le. “Breaking the Web: Data Localization vs. the Global Internet.”
Emory Law Journal, UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 378, 2014, (53 pages)
Cory, Nigel. “The False Appeal of Data Nationalism: Why the Value of Data Comes from How It’s Used, Not Where It’s Stored.”
Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, 2019
Cory, Nigel, and Luke Dascoli. “How Barriers to Cross-Border Data Flows Are Spreading Globally, What They Cost, and How to Address Them.”
Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, 2021
Ferracane, Martina, et al. “The Cost of Data Protectionism.”
Vox EU, 2018
Mishra, Neha. “Data Governance and Digital Trade in India: Losing Sight of the Forest for the Trees?”
Data Sovereignty along the Digital Silk Road, ANU College of Law, 2021, (18 pages)
AI and Trade
Brynjolfsson, Erik, et al. “Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade? Evidence from a Large Digital Platform.”
National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 24917, (25 pages)
Cory, Nigel. “Use of Technologies in Trade: AI and Policy Considerations.”
Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, vol. Contributing to a World Economic Forum report on TradeTech, 2020
Goldfarb, Avi, and Daniel Trefler. “AI and International Trade.”
National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 24254, 2018, (33 pages)
Irion, Kristina. “AI Regulation in the European Union and Trade Law: How Can Accountability of AI and a High Level of Consumer Protection Prevail over a Trade Discipline on Source Code?”
Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband, 2021, (81 pages)
Peng, Shin-vi, et al. “Artificial Intelligence and International Economic Law: A Research and Policy Agenda.”
Artificial Intelligence and International Economic Law: Disruption, Regulation, and Reconfiguration, Cambridge University Press, 2021, (29 pages)
Cybersecurity and National Security
Aaronson, Susan Ariel. “Data Is Dangerous: Comparing the Risks That the United States, Canada and Germany See in Data Troves.”
Centre for International Governance Innovation, Paper No. 241, 2020, (36 pages)
Meltzer, Joshua P. “Digital Trade, and Data Flows: Re-Thinking a Role for International Trade Rules.”
Global Economy & Development WP 132, 2020, (36 pages)
Open Data, Personal Data Protection/Privacy and Trade
Aaronson, Susan Ariel. “Listening to Users and Other Ideas for Building Trust in Digital Trade.”
Centre for International Governance Innovation, Paper No. 258, 2021, (22 pages)
Chander, Anupam, et al. “Catalyzing Privacy Law.”
Minnesota Law Review, 2019, (56 pages)
Mattoo, Aaditya, and Joshua P. Meltzer. “International Data Flows and Privacy: The Conflict and Its Resolution.”
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8431, 2018, (36 pages)
Scassa, Teresa. “Open Data & Privacy.”
The State of Open Data, edited by Tim Davies et al., University of Ottawa, 2018, (11 pages)
WTO and Digital Trade
Aaronson, Susan Ariel. “Why Trade Agreements Are Not Setting Information Free: The Lost History and Reinvigorated Debate over Cross-Border Data Flows, Human Rights and National Security.”
World Trade Review, 2015, pp. 1–30, (30 pages)
Aaronson, Susan Ariel, and Patrick LeBlond. “Another Digital Divide: The Rise of Data Realms and Its Implications for the WTO.”
Journal of International Economic Law, vol. 21, no. 2, 2018, pp. 245–72, (27 pages)
Aaronson, Susan Ariel, and Thomas Struett. “Data Is Divisive: A History of Public Communications on E-Commerce, 1998–2020.”
Centre for International Governance Innovation, Paper No. 247, 2020, (32 pages)
Burri, Mira. “Towards a New Treaty on Digital Trade.”
Journal of World Trade, vol. 55, no. 1, 2021, (24 pages)
IP, Digital Trade, and Trade Law
Burri, Mira. “Book Review: Intellectual Property, Public Policy, and International Trade.”
European Journal of International Law, vol. 20, 2009, pp. 923–25, (3 pages)
Burri, Mira, and Thomas Cottier. “Introduction: Digital Technologies and International Trade Regulation.”
Trade Governance in the Digital Age, Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp. 1–14, (14 pages)
Taubman, Antony. “Discontent Industries? Creative Works and International Trade Law: Making Sense of ‘Analogue’ IP Rules in a Digital Age.”
World Trade Organization; University of Melbourne – Melbourne Law School; University of South Australia – School of Law, 2019, (23 pages)
China and Digital Trade
Erie, Mathew Steven, and Thomas Streinz. “The Beijing Effect: China’s ‘Digital Silk Road’ as Transnational Data Governance.”
New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, 2021, (61 pages)
Gao, Henry S. “Across the Great Wall: E-Commerce Joint Statement Initiative Negotiation and China.”
2020, (19 pages)
Gao, Henry S. “Digital or Trade? The Contrasting Approaches of China and US to Digital Trade.”
Journal of International Economic Law, vol. 21, no. 2, 2018, (33 pages)