Damian Raess Editor

Cosimo Beverelli is a research economist at the WTO and programme associate in the Global Governance Programme, European University Institute. He has published in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of International Economics, on the effects of international fragmentation of production, the impact of services trade policies on manufacturing, trade facilitation, trade policy substitution, and international migration. Jürgen Kurtz is Professor of International Economic Law at the European University Institute. His most recent book is The WTO and International Investment Law: Converging Systems (2016). Professor Kurtz has acted as an ICSID arbitrator and serves on the editorial boards of Journal of International Dispute Settlement and Journal of World Investment and Trade. Damian Raess is SNSF Assistant Professor in Political Science at the World Trade Institute, University of Bern, specializing in international political economy. He is the co-author of the LABPTA dataset, which provides detailed information that documents key features of labor provisions across preferential trade agreements signed from 1990 onwards.