The Role of Law in Global Value Chains: A Research Manifesto

Grietje Baars, Jennifer Bair, Liam Campling, Dan Danielsen, Dennis Davis, Klaas Hendrik Eller, Dez Farkas, Tomaso Ferrando, Jason Jackson, David Hansen-Miller, Elizabeth Havice, Claire Mummé, Jesse Salah Ovadia, David Quentin, Brishen Rogers, Jaakko Salminen, Alvaro Santos, Benjamin Selwyn, Marlese Von Broembsen, Lucie E. WhiteThe IGLP Law and Global Production Working Group

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Abstract

Most scholars attribute the development and ubiquity of global value chains to economic forces, treating law as an exogenous factor, if at all. By contrast, we assert the centrality of legal regimes and private ordering mechanisms to the creation, structure, geography, distributive effects and governance of Global Value Chains (GVCs), and thereby seek to establish the study of law and GVCs as rich and important terrain for research in its own righ
Original languageEnglish
Article numberlrw003
JournalLondon Review of International Law
Volume4
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)57-79
Number of pages23
ISSN2050-6333
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2016
Externally publishedYes

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