Artificial Intelligence and International Economic Law
Disruption, Regulation, and Reconfiguration

Examines the interplay between artificial intelligence and international economic law, and its effects on global economic order. This title is also available as Open Access.

Shin-yi Peng (Edited by), Ching-Fu Lin (Edited by), Thomas Streinz (Edited by)

9781108844932, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 14 October 2021

320 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 2.5 cm, 0.67 kg

'The set of technologies included in AI present existential and more ordinary threats, in addition to utopian opportunities. These technologies, and their threats, are global, and will therefore require regulatory coordination among states through international law, and will also challenge settled rules of international economic law. This volume, with exciting and trenchant chapters written by a dream team of authors, illuminates our path to the future.' Joel P. Trachtman, Professor of International Law, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are transforming economies, societies, and geopolitics. Enabled by the exponential increase of data that is collected, transmitted, and processed transnationally, these changes have important implications for international economic law (IEL). This volume examines the dynamic interplay between AI and IEL by addressing an array of critical new questions, including: How to conceptualize, categorize, and analyze AI for purposes of IEL? How is AI affecting established concepts and rubrics of IEL? Is there a need to reconfigure IEL, and if so, how? Contributors also respond to other cross-cutting issues, including digital inequality, data protection, algorithms and ethics, the regulation of AI-use cases (autonomous vehicles), and systemic shifts in e-commerce (digital trade) and industrial production (fourth industrial revolution). This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Preface
1. Artificial intelligence and international economic law: disruption, regulation, and reconfiguration Shin-Yi Peng, Ching-Fu Lin and Thomas Streinz
Part I. Systemic Shifts in the Global Economic Order: 2. Trade law in a data-driven economy: a call for modesty and resilience Gregory Shaffer
3. Global law in the face of datafication and artificial intelligence Rolf H. Weber
4. Trading AI: economic interests, societal choices and multilateral rules Dan Ciuriak and Vlada Rodionova
Part II. Reconceptualizing WTO Law for the Ai Economy: 5. Trade rules for industry 4.0: why the TBT agreement matters even more Aik Hoe Lim
6. Autonomous vehicle standards under the TBT agreement: disrupting the boundaries? Shin-Yi Peng
7. Convergence, complexity and uncertainty: AI and intellectual property protection Bryan Mercurio and Ronald Yu
8. Are digital trade disputes 'trade disputes'? Yuka Fukunaga
Part III. Data Regulation as AI Regulation: 9. International economic law's regulation of data as a resource for the AI economy Thomas Streinz
10. Data protection and artificial intelligence: the EU's internal approach and its promotion through trade agreements Alan Hervé
11. Data portability in a data-driven world Frederike Zufall and Raphael Zingg
Part IV. International Economic Law Limits to AI Regulation: 12. Public moral, trade secret, and the dilemma of regulating driving automation systems Ching-Fu Lin
13. International trade law and the data ethics: possibilities and challenges Neha Mishra
14. Disciplining artificial intelligence policies: WTO law as a sword and a shield Kelly K. Shang and Rachel R. Du
V. Reconfiguration of International Economic Law: 15. Across the great wall: e-commerce joint statement initiative negotiation and China Henry Gao
16. The next great global knowledge infrastructure land rush has begun: will the US or China prevail? Jane K. Winn and Yi-Shyuan Chiang
17. Trade law architecture after the fourth industrial revolution Lisa Toohey.

Subject Areas: Artificial intelligence [UYQ], Intellectual property law [LNR], Transnational commercial law [LBDK], International economic & trade law [LBBM], Comparative law [LAM]