The Sustainability Revolution in International Trade Agreements

Weaving together theory and practice, the chapters in this volume provide a comprehensive assessment of sustainable development provisions in international trade agreements. The volume offers important reflections upon the real extent and the foreseeable consequences of this sustainability revolution.

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Geraldo Vidigal is Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, where he coordinates the LLM in International Trade and Investment Law. He is Managing Editor of Legal Issues of Economic Integration (Kluwer) Theme Developer for International Economic Law at Oxford International Organizations. He holds a PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge, an LLM in International Law from the Sorbonne Law School, and a Bachelor's in Law from the University of São Paulo. He integrates the roster of dispute settlement panellists of the World Trade Organization, where he was previously a Dispute Settlement Lawyer, and of the European Union (for trade as well as sustainable development). Kathleen Claussen is Professor of Law at Georgetown University. She is the author of more than 40 articles and essays concerning trade, investment, and international dispute settlement, among other related research areas. She has also acted as counsel or arbitrator in over two dozen international disputes. She is co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Economic Law, published by Oxford University Press. Professor Claussen is a graduate of the Yale Law School, Queen's University Belfast (where she was a Mitchell Scholar), and Indiana University where she was a Wells Scholar.