A post-WTO international legal order: utopian, dystopian and other scenarios

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Abstract

Part I: The Post-WTO: Introduction -- An Introduction to Utopian and Dystopian Post-WTO Regimes and Environments -- Part II: The Post-WTO: Macro and Theoretical Perspectives -- To Dystopia and Beyond: The WTO in a Warming Megaregional World -- Narrowed Down Utopia: Adjusting the WTO to a Changing Trade Environment -- Waiting for Cordell Hull -- GAIA 2048—A 'Glocal Agency in Anthropocene': Cognitive and Institutional Change as 'Legal Science Fiction' -- If the WTO Were to Break Down Completely, Would We Stoop and Build It Up with Worn-Out Tools? -- Part III: The Post-WTO: Dispute Settlement -- The EU Approach to Overcome the WTO Dispute Settlement Vacuum: Article 25 DSU Interim Appeal Arbitration as a Bridge Between Renovation and Innovation -- Like a Rolling Stone: Exploring Viable Options for the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism to Evolve Forward in the Post-WTO Era -- What Can We Learn from Our Struggling Cousin?: Recent Discussions on Reform of International Investment Law and Investment Dispute Settlement Proceedings -- Reaching for Utopia, Geneva as Inspiration for Investment Disputes? -- A Possible Hierarchy of Dispute Settlement Systems? -- Part IV: The Post-WTO: Specific International Economic Law Issues -- The Concern with Non-concerns: For the End of Trade Dystopia -- The Rise of Import Substitution Subsidies and Local Content Requirements in a Dystopian WTO 2.0 Regime -- A Development-Driven Post WTO World -- Saving the World Trade Order from the Bottom Up: A Role for Preferential Trade Agreements -- A New International Trade Framework for Digital Assets.