Faculty Online Research Seminar – ‘Vertical Law and Development’ by Prof. Ngoc Son Bui

Faculty Online Research Seminar – ‘Vertical Law and Development’ by Prof. Ngoc Son Bui

This seminar conceptualizes and illustrates vertical law and development which it defines as a transnational legal process whereby a state or institution integrates norms of public international law into international economic law which may be then adopted in the national legal system of another state to facilitate domestic law reform and societal change.

Vertical law and development is exemplified by the case of the 2020 European Union-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA). The most comprehensive trade agreement the EU has concluded with a developing country, the EVFTA will gradually eliminate almost all customs duties. However, this trade deal does not merely deal with trade. It also functions as a conduit for the diffusion of international legal norms (norms of international human rights, labor, environmental, intellectual property law, and the international ideals of the rule of law) into the Vietnamese law to foster domestic legal reform and social and economic development.

The EVFTA is compared with the 2019 European-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (ESFTA). Unlike the EVFTA, the ESFTA’s function is mainly commercial rather than normative due to the EU’s instrumental approach to Singapore, and Singapore’s status as a developed country with a common law system.

This seminar will conclude with reflections on further studies on the functional difference of the EU FTAs with ASEAN countries; the role of international law in law and development; and vertical law and development as a promising topic of comparative international law.

About the speaker: Prof. Ngoc Son Bui

Register  here  by 12 noon, 27 October 2020 to attend the event.

Date

28 Oct 2020
Expired!

Time

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Location

Online
Online

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