The Road Travelled and Future Directions for Sustainability and Tech in a Trumpian Era of De-Globalisation

The Road Travelled and Future Directions for Sustainability and Tech in a Trumpian Era of De-Globalisation

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The articles and opinions of GRUR International have frequently engaged with some of the leading issues that our legal systems are grappling with, two of which I want to explore in this short editorial focusing on the path travelled and the challenges ahead from an IP and competition law perspective. These are (possibly unsurprisingly) sustainability – including climate change – and digital and AI developments. The first part will briefly review how the two areas of law have interacted with these issues. The second part will focus on how the new era of polarisation, de-globalisation, protectionism, and nationalism, which has now been firmly ushered in with the re-election of Donald Trump in the US, will affect law and policy in these fields. It seems beyond doubt that sustainability and climate change, along with the developments around digitalisation and algorithms/AI, are among the most critical issues of our time. When exploring the issue of sustainability and especially climate, we can focus in particular on IP laws and competition laws, as each of these areas has started to grapple with specific challenges and made some progress.

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GRUR International ; 74, 7, 2025, 2632-8550.

[Oxford, England] : Oxford University Press (OUP), 2025.

English

https://academic.oup.com/grurint/article/72/3/231/6998505

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