International Trade and Business Law Review

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Founded in 1995, the International Trade and Business Law Review (ITBLR) is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles, case notes, comments, and book reviews on wide ranging topics surrounding international trade and business. The ITBLR is published annually and accepts submissions throughout the year. For any queries, please email Dr Sharmin Tania or Dr Mostafa Haider at ITBLR@curtin.edu.au.

Objectives

Foundational ideas about trade and business, or of states and corporations, have undergone considerable rethinking in the last few decades. In a world ridden with crises – of climate, health, inequality, and peace and security – thoughts and practices of trade and commerce as exchange of goods and services among individuals, corporations, and states fail to capture the layered intricacies involved in their historical evolution and contemporary expansion. It is challenging to understand trade and investment, business, and regulation without paying close attention to their relationship with myriad techniques of global law and governance.

Law remains one of the central ways of rethinking and restructuring the local and global machineries of trade and business. All forms of commercial activities today – from bilateral investments to multilateral trade to clandestine transnational businesses – are being shaped by powerful actors and mundane actors alike. Legal architecture of trade, commerce and finance is more fluid than ever before.

The diverse stakes of legal rules and rights in and around debates about international trade, investment, money, property, contract, and business give rise to novel inquiries, experiments and possibilities for lawyers, interdisciplinary scholars, activists, and policy entrepreneurs. The ITBLR plays a part in these shared and contested intellectual efforts to rethink global business and trade.

Scope

The ITBLR is consciously open and wide in its publication scope. We invite submissions that touch on any of the following topics:

Trade, investment, and contractual debates and disputes arising out of local, national, regional, supranational, institutional, formal, and informal arrangements.
Legal and policy issues relating to the global market, food security, currency, finance, climate, technology, digitisation, intellectual property, artificial intelligence, the value chain, modern slavery, immigration laws and policies, and various regulatory techniques of labour and capital.
Political, juridical, and ethical implications of ideas linked to global trade and business, including but not limited to, sustainable development, human rights, free trade, protectionism, green economy, and corporate social responsibility.
Historical and sociological frameworks of trade and business, including but not limited to, indigeneity, colonialism, social movement, capitalism, and neoliberalism.

Founder and Emeritus Editor-in-Chief

Professor Gabriël A. Moens Emeritus Professor of Law, The University of Queensland; Adjunct Professor of Law, Curtin University, and The University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney.

Editor-in-Chief

Professor Robert Cunningham

Editors

Dr Sharmin Tania

Dr Mostafa Haider

Editorial Board

Members of the Student Editorial Board

International Editorial Advisory Board

Professor Philip Evans, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Perth
Professor Henry Deeb Gabriel, Elon University, North Carolina
Professor Luke Nottage, The University of Sydney, Sydney
Professor Dale Pinto, Curtin University, Perth
Dr Kashan Pirzada, Universiti Utara Malaysia
Dr Rajesh Sharma, RMIT University, Melbourne
Professor Binwu Qin, Xiangtan University Law School, P R China

Author guidelines

The Founder of the ITBLR is Professor Gabriël A Moens, Emeritus Professor of Law University of Queensland, Professor of Law, Curtin University, Australia. The Editor-in-Chief is Professor Robert Cunningham, Dean and Head of Curtin Law School. The Editors are Dr Sharmin Tania and Dr Mostafa Haider. The Editor-in-Chief is assisted by members of the International Editorial Advisory Board.

The ITBLR publishes articles of up to 12,000 words in length including footnotes. It also publishes book reviews and review essays of up to 10,000 words including footnotes. An Abstract of approximately 200 words should be submitted on a separate page. Submissions for publication are welcomed at any time during the year. All submissions and correspondence should be sent to:

Dr Sharmin Tania/ Dr Mostafa Haider

Academic editors

ITBLR@curtin.edu.au

All submissions to ITBLR are subject to a double-blind peer review by appropriate specialists in the field.

Copyright in articles published in ITBLR remains with the author. The author will be asked to sign a Copyright Licence Agreement before an article can be published.

It is advised that all ITBLR authors familiarise themselves with the Australian Guide to Legal Citation 4^th edition (AGLC4). In particular, authors should note that the ITBLR has adopted the AGLC4 as its style guide for referencing.

ITBLR Style Guide

The better the resolution, the better the printed result will be. Images, charts and figures should be submitted as separate files either as .eps or similar files, or at high resolution (300 DPI) in commonly-used forms such as .pdf, .jpeg or .tiff.

If authors have used EndNote or similar referencing software, the field codes should not be live. For EndNote, use the ‘Remove field codes’ command.

Before submitting, remember to ‘accept’ all of the changes in the document that you (as the author) agree with during the review process.

For submission to the ITBLR, authors are required to comply with the Duties of Authors as stated in the Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement for the ITBLR here.