Global Legal Pluralism and Multipolar Conflicts: A Review of Oren Perez's 'Sensitivity and Global Legal Pluralism: Rethinking the Trade and Environment Conflict'

Abstract

This review will follow Oren Perez’s argument as it unfolds throughout his book with focus on his discussion of the GATT/WTO jurisprudence, and simultaneously offer a commentary on how Perez’s own findings point to the difficulties posed by trends within the system of transnational economic regulation, whose primary purpose is to regulate international markets, and whose inner ethos conflicts with the legislative and institutional activities in the adjoining field of environmental law.

Keywords: legal pluralism, law and economics, international trade law, transnational economic regulation, GATT/WTO jurisprudence