BIICL IIEL WTO Conference

I attended this conference with lots of initials earlier this week. It was an excellent and stimulating gathering of world trade experts, with small but vocal groups from the sustainable development, IP and human rights perspectives.

The most striking thing for me was that however entrenched interdisciplinary boundaries might seem, particularly when one is engrossed in a particular point of research, fields indeed do, and should, merge into one another. Long may this continue - questions of health and environment cannot be addressed without reference to economics and trade reality; likewise trade debates should not proceed apart from wider issues.