International Trade Law and Emerging Technologies: A Conceptual Framework

Balázs Horváthy

doi:10.46282/blr.2020.4.2.201

Authors

Balázs Horváthy HAS Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6809-0223

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46282/blr.2020.4.2.201

Keywords:

New technologies, industry 4.0, autonomous vehicles, technology and law, international trade law, WTO

Abstract

The paper aims to establish a conceptual framework for a relation between technological development and the international trade law. Uncovering the complex interaction between these two areas of the social reality is important today, when we are witnessing an intense period of technological revolution, which transforms not only the trade, but also the whole economy, and at the same time, it also creates challenges to the international trade law. The paper sheds light on the background of these processes and offers an introductory analysis with the aim of mapping the topic and the relevant literature. For this reason, the paper examines the roots of this context, and tries to respond the questions, what are the main challenges this revolution poses to international trade law, and how this area of law can rely upon its infrastructure to respond these challenges.

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