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

Authors

Alvaro Santos, Georgetown University Law CenterFollow
Grietje Baars, The City Law School, City University LondonFollow
Jennifer Bair, University of Colorado at BoulderFollow
Liam Campling, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of LondonFollow
Dan Danielsen, Northeastern University School of LawFollow
Dennis Davis, Faculty of Law, University of Cape TownFollow
Klaas Hendrik Eller, Faculty of Law, University of Cologne
Dez Farkas, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Tomaso Ferrando, Warwick Law SchoolFollow
Jason Jackson, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
David Hansen-Miller
Elizabeth Havice, University of North CarolinaFollow
Claire Mummé, Faculty of Law, University of WindsorFollow
Jesse Salah Ovadia, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle UniversityFollow
David Quentin, City Political Economy Research Centre, City University London
Brishen Rogers, Temple University Beasley School of LawFollow
Jaakko Salminen, Faculty of Law, University of TurkuFollow
Benjamin Selwyn, University of SussexFollow
Marlese von Broembsen, Institute of Development and Labour Law, University of Cape TownFollow
Lucie E. White, Harvard Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-27-2016

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 right.

Publication Citation

The IGLP Law and Global Production Working Group; The Role of Law in Global Value Chains: A Research Manifesto, London Review of International Law, Volume 4, Issue 1, 1 March 2016, Pages 57–79, https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrw003

Scholarly Commons Citation

Santos, Alvaro; Baars, Grietje; Bair, Jennifer; Campling, Liam; Danielsen, Dan; Davis, Dennis; Eller, Klaas Hendrik; Farkas, Dez; Ferrando, Tomaso; Jackson, Jason; Hansen-Miller, David; Havice, Elizabeth; Mummé, Claire; Ovadia, Jesse Salah; Quentin, David; Rogers, Brishen; Salminen, Jaakko; Selwyn, Benjamin; Broembsen, Marlese von; and White, Lucie E., "The Role of Law in Global Value Chains: A Research Manifesto" (2016). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 2106.
https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2106