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About TL&D<\/h3>\n

Founded in 2009, the philosophy of Trade, Law<\/span> and Development<\/span> (TL&D) has been to generate and sustain a constructive and democratic debate on emergent issues in international economic law and to serve as a forum for the discussion and distribution of ideas. Towards these ends, the Journal has published works by noted scholars such as the World Trade Organization\u2019s Deputy Director General, Yonov F. Agah, Dr. (Prof.) Ernst Ulrich Petersmann, Prof. Christian H\u00e4berli, Prof. Petros Mavroidis, Prof. Mitsuo Matsuhita, Prof. Raj Bhala, Prof. Joel Trachtman, Dr. (Prof.) Gabrielle Marceau, Prof. Simon Lester, Prof. Bryan Mercurio, and Prof. M. Sornarajah, among others. TL&D also has the distinction of being ranked the best journal in India across all fields of law for seven consecutive years by Washington and Lee University School of Law.<\/p>\n

Pursuant to this philosophy, the Board of Editors of TL&D is pleased to announce \u201cInto the Future of Global Trade: Tackling Fragmentation, Protectionism, Tariffs, and Beyond<\/span>\u201d as the theme for its next Special Issue (Vol. XVII, No. 1).<\/p>\n

Over the past decade, the landscape of international trade has undergone a monumental shift. The turning of the tide away from multilateralism, signalled by the rise of unilateral tariffs, protectionist industrial policy, and widespread enforcement of non-tariff barriers, has presented us with significant challenges pertaining to legal uncertainties, institutional clarity, and disruptions to global supply chains. Consequently, the governance of international trade is becoming increasingly fragmented \u2014 marked by the burgeoning growth of economic treaties such as such as regional and preferential trade agreements, often overlapping with multilateral systems already in place, in addition to conflicting norms of dispute settlement, and intersecting regulatory regimes across the environment, health, digital economy, and national security. These trends mark a shift away from the predictability that once characterised the rules based multilateral trading order, and reflect deeper geopolitical and economic considerations at stake.<\/p>\n

The growing reliance on protectionist measures has contributed to an increasingly fragmented global trade regime. While some measures can be argued to be legitimate means of safeguarding state interests and remedying trade imbalances, many have raised concerns regarding legal uncertainties, discriminatory treatment and retaliatory measures in the form of trade wars. The resultant framework \u2014 a mix of trade measures lacking regulatory oversight and compliance to multilateral norms has increased the risk of inconsistency and complexity across regimes. As such, an extensive understanding of such policies, their legal soundness, and their interplay with the present institutional framework is essential to analyse their implications for the future of international trade.<\/p>\n

While the theme is broad enough to cover a wide range of issues, an indicative list of specific areas is as follows:<\/h3>\n