Happy to share my new piece in the Journal of International Economic Law. I use negotiations w/in the International Labor Organization (ILO) to show how the hardening of soft law standards in binding trade agreements undermines consensus on new standards at the ILO. academic.oup.com/jiel/article...

Integrating non-binding labour standards in binding trade agreements: The ILO’s feedback loop

ABSTRACT. Much attention has been placed on how trade agreements integrate and benefit from a non-binding International Labour Organization (ILO) declaration. T