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September 17, 2026The Law and Development Review

Law, Trade, and Development

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JCJulien Chaisse

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Policy analysis reveals unequal terms of participation within international trade agreements, indicating that existing legal frameworks often constrain regulatory autonomy in developing economies.

Key Points

  • Evaluate how international trade law shapes the conditions, quality, and distribution of global market participation for states, firms, and communities.
  • Synthesized liberal, institutional, developmental, and critical theoretical perspectives on trade and development.
  • Assessed trade mechanisms including GATT bindings, reciprocity, preferences, and special and differential treatment.
  • Reviewed contemporary policy developments spanning investment facilitation, digital commerce moratoria, fisheries subsidies, and dispute settlement.
  • Demonstrated that traditional mechanisms like reciprocity and GATT bindings systematically distribute trade benefits and access unevenly.
  • Identified regulatory barriers, including the exclusion of the Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement from the WTO and the lapse of electronic commerce customs moratoria.
  • Showed that modern trade disciplines frequently restrict domestic policy space for environmental sustainability, public health, and labor standards.

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Julien Chaisse (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aabb7b85f706d05830e6feehttps://doi.org/10.1515/ldr-2026-0094
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