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Emily Reid
Background
LLB (Hons) (Edin); DipLP; LLM International and European Legal Studies (Dunelm); M. Jur. (Dunelm); Ph.D (Soton).
Current Position
Professor of International Economic Law and Sustainable Development
Previously Associate Dean Education and Student Experience, Faculty of Business, Law and Art, University of Southampton (2015-2018)
Research Interests
My primary research interest lies in International Economic Law and Sustainable Development, with a particular focus upon the experience of the European Union as a case study. My monograph, Balancing Human Rights, Environmental Protection and International Trade: Lessons from the European Union was originally published by Hart in January 2015, and in paperback in January 2017.
My current work is centred upon a long term project, Governance and Regulation in a Globalised Context. Globalisation encapsulates the developing inter-connection of markets and economic systems, driven by trade liberalisation. Yet alongside the drive towards trade liberalisation, the international community has committed itself to a range of objectives including environmental and social. These diverse objectives are established by different actors through separate (specialist) regimes. Thus the World Trade Organisation regulates international trade at a multilateral level, alongside this trade regime are numerous regional and multilateral sets of international commitments relating to environmental protection, to labour standards, to human rights etc. The emergence of new and diverse global, non-state actors (such as the WTO, the EU and the ISO) raises questions relating to democracy and accountability of decision-making which compound the regulatory challenge posed by the need to reconcile the diverse commitments of the international community. Answers to these questions are necessary for the achievement of sustainable development.
Work in progress:
‘The WTO’s Purpose, Regulatory Autonomy and the future of the Embedded Liberalism Compromise’ forthcoming in 20 years of Domestic Policy under WTO Law: The Embedded Liberalism Compromise Revisited , Toohey and Moon (ed) CUP, 2017 (forthcoming) (Originally presented at The Embedded Liberalism Compromise Revisited, UNSW Law School, Sydney (February 16)
‘Negative Integration and the ‘courts’ balancing and the room to manoeuvre’ originally presented at: Trade and Environment: positive integration in the EU and the WTO, (invited), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, May 2016.
Trade and Environment, (ed) with P Delimatsis, Tilburg, Volume 6, Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law, Edward Elgar.
‘Law and the Limits of Risk Assessment’, with James Davey. (An early version of this paper was presented at the WLA Hart Workshop, London, September 2016).
PhD Supervision
Emily welcomes enquiries from students interested in undertaking research in International Economic Law, particularly WTO Law with a focus on "trade and..." linkage; EU Substantive Law; Sustainable development; and also those with an interest in questions of governance, legitimacy and accountability relating to emerging non-state/non-traditional actors in the global order.
Affiliate Research Groups
Centre for Law, Policy and Society
Recent Conference and Seminar Papers
‘WTO Law and human rights: sustainable development - a lens through which to integrate fragmented fields’ Oxford, Public International Law Discussion Group (invited), New College Oxford, February 2011
'WTO Law and HUman Rights: A Relationship reconfigured through the lens of sustainable development', WTO Law Scholars Forum, University College London, October 2009
“Free Trade: What is it Good For? Globalisation, Deregulation and ‘Public Opinion’”, with Jenny Steele (University of York), presented at JLS workshop on Economic Globalisation and Ecological Localisation, Cardiff Law School, September 2008
“Drawing the line between economic liberalisation and national regulatory autonomy: EC and WTO intersections” presented at, International Economic Law Interest Group Meeting, Conference of the European Society of International Law, Heidelberg, September 2008, (supported by the Society of Legal Scholars, Academic Purposes Fund)
Address: School of Law, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ
LLB (Hons) (Edin); DipLP; LLM International and European Legal Studies (Dunelm); M. Jur. (Dunelm); Ph.D (Soton).
Current Position
Professor of International Economic Law and Sustainable Development
Previously Associate Dean Education and Student Experience, Faculty of Business, Law and Art, University of Southampton (2015-2018)
Research Interests
My primary research interest lies in International Economic Law and Sustainable Development, with a particular focus upon the experience of the European Union as a case study. My monograph, Balancing Human Rights, Environmental Protection and International Trade: Lessons from the European Union was originally published by Hart in January 2015, and in paperback in January 2017.
My current work is centred upon a long term project, Governance and Regulation in a Globalised Context. Globalisation encapsulates the developing inter-connection of markets and economic systems, driven by trade liberalisation. Yet alongside the drive towards trade liberalisation, the international community has committed itself to a range of objectives including environmental and social. These diverse objectives are established by different actors through separate (specialist) regimes. Thus the World Trade Organisation regulates international trade at a multilateral level, alongside this trade regime are numerous regional and multilateral sets of international commitments relating to environmental protection, to labour standards, to human rights etc. The emergence of new and diverse global, non-state actors (such as the WTO, the EU and the ISO) raises questions relating to democracy and accountability of decision-making which compound the regulatory challenge posed by the need to reconcile the diverse commitments of the international community. Answers to these questions are necessary for the achievement of sustainable development.
Work in progress:
‘The WTO’s Purpose, Regulatory Autonomy and the future of the Embedded Liberalism Compromise’ forthcoming in 20 years of Domestic Policy under WTO Law: The Embedded Liberalism Compromise Revisited , Toohey and Moon (ed) CUP, 2017 (forthcoming) (Originally presented at The Embedded Liberalism Compromise Revisited, UNSW Law School, Sydney (February 16)
‘Negative Integration and the ‘courts’ balancing and the room to manoeuvre’ originally presented at: Trade and Environment: positive integration in the EU and the WTO, (invited), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, May 2016.
Trade and Environment, (ed) with P Delimatsis, Tilburg, Volume 6, Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law, Edward Elgar.
‘Law and the Limits of Risk Assessment’, with James Davey. (An early version of this paper was presented at the WLA Hart Workshop, London, September 2016).
PhD Supervision
Emily welcomes enquiries from students interested in undertaking research in International Economic Law, particularly WTO Law with a focus on "trade and..." linkage; EU Substantive Law; Sustainable development; and also those with an interest in questions of governance, legitimacy and accountability relating to emerging non-state/non-traditional actors in the global order.
Affiliate Research Groups
Centre for Law, Policy and Society
Recent Conference and Seminar Papers
‘WTO Law and human rights: sustainable development - a lens through which to integrate fragmented fields’ Oxford, Public International Law Discussion Group (invited), New College Oxford, February 2011
'WTO Law and HUman Rights: A Relationship reconfigured through the lens of sustainable development', WTO Law Scholars Forum, University College London, October 2009
“Free Trade: What is it Good For? Globalisation, Deregulation and ‘Public Opinion’”, with Jenny Steele (University of York), presented at JLS workshop on Economic Globalisation and Ecological Localisation, Cardiff Law School, September 2008
“Drawing the line between economic liberalisation and national regulatory autonomy: EC and WTO intersections” presented at, International Economic Law Interest Group Meeting, Conference of the European Society of International Law, Heidelberg, September 2008, (supported by the Society of Legal Scholars, Academic Purposes Fund)
Address: School of Law, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ
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The WTO’s potential normative force regarding the balance between economic liberalisation and non-economic concerns means that failure to recognise and confront the underlying agenda, the preconceptions brought to the interpretation and application of WTO rules (and consequently their inter-action with other regimes) permits an unbalanced development of the law which does a disservice to the will of the international community as expressed in the commitment to sustainable development, as well as in numerous human rights and environmental treaties.
Ideas developed in this paper are further developed in Reid, Balancing Human Rights, Environmental Protection and International Trade, Chapter 9 'Effecting the Reconciliation of Competing Interests: Reconceptualising the Legal Framework' Hart Publishing, Oxford and Portland, 2015
This paper contends that economic development and human rights protection are in reality mutually supporting and inter-dependent. It suggests that the principle of ‘sustainable development’ offers a conceptual lens which has the capacity to shed light upon how the relationship between WTO Law and Human Rights law ought to be developed. From this perspective, a practical analysis of the relationship between WTO Law and human rights law is undertaken.
The EU has been held up as an example of an economic order which has successfully engaged with human rights. Arguably the relationship between economic liberalisation and human rights in the EU internal market offers one model of the implementation of sustainable development. The hypothesis that the EU could serve as a model for the WTO in this regard is tested through an analysis of the integration of human rights within the EU legal order. Insights emerging through this analysis are extrapolated for consideration in the WTO context.
accountability? The latter depends upon recognition that the potential deregulatory effect of the WTO is contingent, and that the liberalization of international trade should enhance welfare, rather than be a goal in its own right. Deliberative solutions require a strong public sphere, and we therefore consider whether solutions based on `empowered consumer choice', rather than public deliberation, are unsatisfactory responses to the deregulatory impact of international
trade disputes and their outcomes.
The WTO’s potential normative force regarding the balance between economic liberalisation and non-economic concerns means that failure to recognise and confront the underlying agenda, the preconceptions brought to the interpretation and application of WTO rules (and consequently their inter-action with other regimes) permits an unbalanced development of the law which does a disservice to the will of the international community as expressed in the commitment to sustainable development, as well as in numerous human rights and environmental treaties.
Ideas developed in this paper are further developed in Reid, Balancing Human Rights, Environmental Protection and International Trade, Chapter 9 'Effecting the Reconciliation of Competing Interests: Reconceptualising the Legal Framework' Hart Publishing, Oxford and Portland, 2015
This paper contends that economic development and human rights protection are in reality mutually supporting and inter-dependent. It suggests that the principle of ‘sustainable development’ offers a conceptual lens which has the capacity to shed light upon how the relationship between WTO Law and Human Rights law ought to be developed. From this perspective, a practical analysis of the relationship between WTO Law and human rights law is undertaken.
The EU has been held up as an example of an economic order which has successfully engaged with human rights. Arguably the relationship between economic liberalisation and human rights in the EU internal market offers one model of the implementation of sustainable development. The hypothesis that the EU could serve as a model for the WTO in this regard is tested through an analysis of the integration of human rights within the EU legal order. Insights emerging through this analysis are extrapolated for consideration in the WTO context.
accountability? The latter depends upon recognition that the potential deregulatory effect of the WTO is contingent, and that the liberalization of international trade should enhance welfare, rather than be a goal in its own right. Deliberative solutions require a strong public sphere, and we therefore consider whether solutions based on `empowered consumer choice', rather than public deliberation, are unsatisfactory responses to the deregulatory impact of international
trade disputes and their outcomes.