Editor's Note Digital Trade

• Publication year: 2024
• Citation: Vol. 1 No. 2

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Victoria Prussen Spears ^*

The world has come a long way since the time of the Silk Road. Nowadays, trade means more than just the transfer of actual physical goods from seller to buyer. Today, we also have digital trade, which is covered in some depth in this issue of The Global Trade Law Journal.

Of course, the other articles in this issue cover a broad range of global trade topics, as you will see.

Digital Trade

This issue begins with the first part of an article titled "The Rise of Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and the Next Generation of International Rules Governing Cross-Border Data Flows and Digital Trade."

In this two-part article, the conclusion of which will appear in the next issue of The Global Trade Law Journal, Frank J. Schweitzer, Ian Saccomanno, and Naoto Nelson Saika of White & Case LLP discuss the proliferation of barriers to cross-border data flows and the current global legal architecture that governs the digital...