Research Handbook on Digital Trade

Edited by David Collins, Professor of International Economic Law, City St George’s, University of London, UK and Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa, Canada

Contents:

1 Introduction to Research Handbook on Digital Trade 1
David Collins and Michael Geist

PART I TRADE AGREEMENTS AND DIGITAL TRADE
2 Digital trade rulemaking in free trade agreements 9
Mira Burri
3 Three generations of digital trade provisions in preferential trade agreements 28
Rodrigo Polanco
4 E-commerce or digital trade? Why the difference should matter to trade
lawyers 54
Wolfgang Alschner
5 WTO law and cross-border data flows for digital trade 73
Rolf H. Weber
6 The Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA): accession to the
digital-only regime 90
Joo Hyoung Lee and David Collins
7 Placing gender equality at the centre of global digital trade policy 102
Michael Geist

PART II REGIONAL APPROACHES TO DIGITAL TRADE: NORTH
AMERICA AND EUROPE
8 The EU as a digital trade actor 118
Elaine Fahey
9 Federalism and digital trade 134
Patrick Leblond

PART III REGIONAL APPROACHES TO DIGITAL TRADE: ASIA
10 China and WTO e-commerce negotiations 149
Henry Gao
11 Facilitating digital trade in Hong Kong 169
Bryan Mercurio
12 Digital trade agreements and digital policy space in the Republic of Korea 179
Tae Jung Park and Joo Hyun Park
13 Towards digital special economic zones: new technology, digitalization
and transformation 200
Julien Chaisse

PART IV REGIONAL APPROACHES TO DIGITAL TRADE: AFRICA,
THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE AMERICAS
14 Streamlining the law on digital trade: prospects for the African
Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) negotiations 219
Cheryl Dine
15 Legal approaches to the regulation of digital trade by Middle Eastern countries 234
Bashar Malkawi
16 Latin America: the leap from the single window to the Single
Submission Portal as a way of internalizing SMEs 253
Manuel Quindimil

PART V DIGITAL TRADE LEGAL AND POLICY CHALLENGES:
FINANCE, INVESTMENT AND TAXES
17 The compatibility of digital services taxes with World Trade Organization law 271
David Collins
18 The feasibility and desirability of applying international investment
agreements to digital assets 289
Nicolette Butler and Jasem Tarawneh
19 Fintech: Technology-enabled financial innovation for digital trade 307
Lerong Lu
20 The digital nomad and the emergence of global labour mobility 330
David Collins and Ben Robinson

PART VI DIGITAL TRADE LEGAL AND POLICY CHALLENGES:
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
21 The principles of algorithmic justice in the digital market 346
Maciej Hulicki
22 Artificial intelligence and law: emerging divergent national regulatory
approaches in a changing landscape of fast-evolving AI technologies 370
Lijun Zhao
23 The role of artificial intelligence in international commercial arbitration
in the post-Covid era 401
Muhammad Hassan Idrees and Annabelle Onyefulu

PART VII DIGITAL TRADE LEGAL AND POLICY CHALLENGES:
DATA, SECURITY AND IP
24 Digital economy agreements: where do we stand and where are we going? 417
Dan Ciuriak
25 Digital trade and economic security: considerations on the Japan–US
Digital Trade Agreement 440
Rikako Watai
26 Digital trade and intellectual property 456
Marc D. Mimler

Index