13 December 2023
CIBEL would like to congratulate the winner of the 2023 CIBEL Global Network Young Scholars Prize Assistant Professor Stefanie Schacherer with her research on ‘Agile Regulation and International Regulatory Cooperation under Free Trade Agreements.’
Stefanie Schacherer’s article revisits the rationale of regulatory policy commitments in Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and assesses their normative impact in light of the paradigm of regulatory agility. She argues that commitments on regulatory coherence and cooperation can lead to more efficient, effective, and transparent regulations which prepare countries to implement agile and future-proof regulatory approaches to tackle current challenges stemming from technology and sustainability. Moreover, by promoting international regulatory cooperation activities, comprehensive FTAs evolve into open-ended living agreements, which are prone to establish dynamic bilateral or plurilateral regulatory relationships. The article shows that the functional rationale perspective on agile regulation may have certain implications for political legitimacy and critically assesses its associated concerns, such as corporate capture and the loss of national regulatory autonomy.
Stefanie Schacherer is Assistant Professor of Law at the Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law. Her research areas include climate change and sustainable development in international economic law, international investment law and arbitration, and European external relations law.
We asked Stefanie how she found her experience participating in the 2023 CIBEL Global Network Conference:
"The 2023 CIBEL Global Network Conference and Young Scholars Workshop was a great experience. I appreciated all the discussions and presentations on cutting-edge research topics in international economic law and am thankful for the chance to have received questions and comments on my ongoing research.”
CIBEL would also like to congratulate this year’s finalist, Assistant Professor Mandy Meng Fang from the City University of Hong Kong, with her research on ‘Revisiting Green Industrial Policy in an Era of Disruption.’
The CIBEL Global Network is a hub and world-first network in this field initiated by CIBEL in 2018. It engages and connects with scholars, businesses, practitioners, regulators, international organisations, NGOs, the public, and other stakeholders across various fields. Its goal is to build a prosperous global community of people working in the CIBEL field.
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