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Donatella AlessandriniLecturerD.Alessandrini@kent.ac.uk |
BiographyLaw degree, University of Bari, Italy (1998) PhD, Birkbeck College, University of London (2007) ResearchMajor Interests
Publications
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Books
Alessandrini, Donatella (2010)
Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trade Regime: The Failure and Promise of the WTO's Development Mission.
Hart
Articles
Alessandrini, Donatella (2010)
GMOs and the Crisis of Objectivity: Nature, Science and the Challenge of Uncertainty.
Social and Legal Studies, 19 (1). pp. 3-23.
Alessandrini, Donatella (2009)
Making the WTO ‘more supportive of development’? The Doha Round and the Political rationality of the WTO’s Development Mission.
Law, Social Justice and Global Development Journal (1). pp. 2-17.
Alessandrini, Donatella (2005)
Transnational Corporations and the Doctrine of Comparative Advantage: A Critique of Free Trade Normative Assumptions.
International Trade Law and Regulations Journal, 11 (1). pp. 14-23. ISSN 1357-3136.
Abstract Examines the free trade doctrine and considers the arguments which challenge the intellectual validity of free trade by examining its normative assumptions. Examines the major economic arguments against free trade and the market distortion argument put forward by Jagdish Bhagwati. Argues that free trade theory has overlooked the impact of events that have taken place after its formulation and which have affected its major assumptions, in particular, the ascendancy of transnational corporations and the influesnce they export on political and economic processes.
Alessandrini, Donatella (2005)
WTO and Current Trade Debate: An Enquiry into the Intellectual Origins of Free Trade Thought.
International Trade Law and Regulation, 11 (2). pp. 53-60. ISSN 1357-3136.
Abstract Examines the intellectual origins of the free trade doctrine, looking at the extent to which the economic analysis of free trade has excluded other forms of analysis. Considers the classical theory of free trade put forward by Alan Smith and analysis. Considers the classical theory of free trade put forward by Adam Smith and David Ricardo and the objections raised to free trade during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, based on arguments relating to tariffs, emerging industries, unemployment, wage differentials and market distortion. Teaching & SupervisionPostgraduate modules
Supervision I am happy to supervise research projects on the WTO, Development, Neo-liberalism, Globalisation and International Political Economy. Other Academic ActivitiesFacilitator for the LLM community Editorial Work:
Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality (Kent): Steering Committee Member
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