Non-Parties: The Negative Externalities of International Trade Agreements in a Private Law Perspective (Works in Progress Meeting - Rescheduled)
- Starts4:30 pm on Wednesday, April 4, 2018
- Ends6:00 pm on Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Join us for a Works in Progress talk by Daniela Caruso, Jean Monnet Professor of European Law at Boston University.
Abstract: In private law theory and in international trade theory alike, a new strand of scholarship has emerged in recent years. This strand is characterized by a focus on market actors who are excluded from deals struck by other parties and suffer economic hardship as a result. Private-law and trade-law scholars involved in this type of research are similarly moved by an aspiration to equality through law and by the realization that market rules based on the enforcement of bilateral deals may be structurally antithetical to a progressive redistribution of resources. I draw inspiration and materials from EU private-law history and contemporary debates to shed light on corresponding trade-law theories. I conclude that the ongoing doctrinal work aimed at redressing the predicament of non-parties, while commendable analytically, remains distributively ambivalent and needs stronger normative vectors.
Open to Boston University faculty, graduate students, and visiting researchers. RSVP to edamrien@bu.edu
- Location:
- Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road (1st floor)
- Registration:
- http://www.bu.edu/european/files/2018/03/spring18.pdf