Andrew Lang

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Professor Andrew Lang joined the Edinburgh School of Law in 2017 as the Chair in International Law and Global Governance. Prior to that, he was Professor of Law at the London School of Economics. He is an expert in Public International Law, with a specialty in International Economic Law and the Law of the World Trade Organization. He has a combined BA/LLB from the University of Sydney, where he was a double University Medallist, and his PhD is from the University of Cambridge, supported by a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. From 2004-6, Professor Lang was a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, before teaching at the London School of Economics from 2006 until 2017. 

Professor Lang's research focusses broadly on role of international legal structures in the constitution of global markets, and on the ways in which global institutions of economic governance reconfigure state formations globally. His current projects seek to develop an account of the current moment as an inflection point in the historical evolution of the post-Cold War international legal order. This consists of two main strands. The first explores the way that the rules, institutions and techniques of global economic governance have been involved in the global propagation of the regulatory state since the post-Cold War period, often in complex and unexpected ways. Thishas both an historical aspect, which redescribesthe 1990s transformation of global economic governance, and a contemporary aspect, which seeks to make sense of the current re-assembling of the regulatory state in light of contemporary crises and instabilities. The second strand trace trajectories of post-conflict state-building and development-oriented governance reform over the same period. The claim behind these two strands of research is that market-building and peace-making represent deeply connected projects of global ordering, and one of the larger aims of my planned research is to develop an understanding of the nature of their relations over time.

Professor Lang's article on 'Heterodox markets and ‘market distortions’ in the global trading system' was the recipient of the 2019 John H. jackson Memorial Prize. His article, 'Reflecting on 'linkage': Cognitive and institutional change in the international trading system' (2007) 70(4) Modern Law Review 523-49 won the Wedderburn Prize, and his PhD Dissertation at the University of Cambridge received the Yorke Prize.

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