Rafael Lima Sakr

• Doctor of Philosophy in Law (LSE)
• Lecturer at Royal Holloway University of London

How was ‘international trade’ between former European empires and their former colonies in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific governed after decolonisation? As is commonly known, the vast majority of African countries became independent in the 1960s, and so new regional trade agreements (RTAs) were regarded as necessary to govern their economic...

Lomé Conventions I (1975) and II (1979) were the first regional trade agreements (RTAs) between the European Community (EC) and the group of postcolonial countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP). Specialized scholarship offers rich analyses of those Conventions; however, little is known about the role of law and lawyers in their making...

How was ‘international trade’ between former European empires and their former colonies in Africa governed after decolonisation? In the 1960s, the vast majority of African countries became independent, and so a new arrangement was necessary to govern their economic relations with Europe. The Yaoundé Conventions were then concluded between the Europ...

In this entry, I discusse the most influential concepts of international trade law, and its relation to development, in the contexts of jurisprudential and institutional-diplomatic ideas and practices. In contrast with other fields of international law, international trade law seems to be comparatively resistant to theoretical abstractions, method...

How was ‘international trade’ between former European empires and their former colonies in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific governed after decolonisation? As is commonly known, the vast majority of African countries became independent in the 1960s, and so new regional trade agreements (RTAs) were regarded as necessary to govern their economic...

History and boundaries are the foundations of international economic law (IEL) as a professional and intellectual field. History is often told to support a wide variety of present projects, norms, and ideas by appealing to the past. Boundary is a technique frequently used to map and defend an exclusive domain for applying the IEL expertise to a bro...

My research inquires into the role of law and lawyers in global governance, trade regionalism and economic development. The central question is why contemporary regional trade agreements (RTAs) between developed and developing countries (South-North) are typically described in international law literature as the expression of a relatively uniform m...

Esta breve introdução à contribuição de Duncan Kennedy à filosofia do Direito tem três objetivos. Primeiro, contextualizar a importância de sua vida e obra na história dos Estados Unidos. Segundo, apresentar sucintamente as ideias centrais por ele desenvolvidas, as quais foram fortemente influenciadas por duas correntes filosóficas: estruturalismo...

Como produto da prática mercantil, a cláusula da nação mais favorecida (CNMF) é um fenômeno jurídico complexo. Enquanto sua estrutura variante não é passível de padronização, por se adaptar às necessidades da sociedade internacional em cada momento histórico, seu núcleo funcional permanece imutável. Na ordem econômica internacional, a descentraliza...

O presente trabalho se propõe a investigar, a partir do questionamento de Yochai Benkler, as virtudes da arquitetura de direitos de propriedade intelectual em face das transformações introduzidas pela revolução da tecnologia da informação. Examinam-se os reflexos da emergente cultural livre sobre os fundamentos dogmáticos da ordem jurídica. Nesse p...