Regular expressions, or regexs, look at assigned blocks of text to find user defined patterns. For a basic overview of regexs, both how to use regexs and why, see Data Science for Lawyers Lesson 3 – Regular Expressions. Another great site to experiment and test regexs with immediate feedback is regexr, which will highlight regex […]
E-Commerce is a relatively new area of free trade agreements. The WTO first established a comprehensive work programme on e-commerce in 1998. At the WTO Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires in 2017 a group of WTO Members agreed to start exploratory talks on e-commerce. Negotiations over a potential multilateral rulebook on e-commerce have been ongoing […]
A sizable part of global trade and investment flows are governed by rules enshrined in free trade agreements and custom unions. These rules, however, can be surprisingly hard to find and complex to navigate. Databases on preferential trade agreements (PTAs) typically only have limited regional coverage or do not provide easy access to treaty full […]