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Trade and human rights debates : judicial deference in the multipolar re-ordering of UN and WTO treaty systems
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EUI; LAW; Working Paper; 2025/16
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PETERSMANN, Ernst-Ulrich, Trade and human rights debates : judicial deference in the multipolar re-ordering of UN and WTO treaty systems, EUI, LAW, Working Paper, 2025/16 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/94166
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This contribution responds to the invitation by the editors of the Handbook on International Economic Law and Human Rights to offer personal reflections on the ‘Trade and Human Rights Debate’. It focuses on the promotion of this debate during my years (1999-2014) as chairman of the International Law Association (ILA)’s International Trade Law Committee (ITLC) and on the numerous reports, articles and conference books published by the more than 50 ITLC members from all over the world ushering in the adoption of an ILA Resolution on trade law and human rights in 2008. The financial crises since 2008-2012, the migration, health and environmental crises, geopolitical rivalries, trade wars, ‘lawfare’ and warfare among authoritarian, neoliberal and ordoliberal governance systems continue to disrupt UN and WTO treaty systems. They justify judicial deference towards ‘constitutional pluralism’, geopolitical rivalries and diverse conceptions of human rights driving diverse ‘international legal policies’ and ‘regulatory competition’.