Not Just Sea Turtles, Let’s Protect Women Too // Daria Boklan's article was published in the European Journal of International Law

In February 2022, an article on exceptions to international trade agreements was published in the European Journal of International Law. Daria Boklan, Professor and Deputy Head of the HSE Department of International Law, is a co-author of the publication.

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The article analyzes the issue that at the moment the exceptions that States include in almost all their international trade agreements allow countries to protect public morals, health and life of people, animals or plants and preserve exhaustible natural resources uch as sea turtles or dolphins? However, what prevents States from allowing restrictive measures in trade aimed at protecting the economic interests of women as well? The authors argue in favor of including such an exception on the basis of an objective assessment of whether a respondent could seek protection under the existing public morality exception to justify a measure that is taken to protect women’s economic interests.

Amrita Bahri, Associate Professor of Law in the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (Mexico) was also working on the article together with Daria Boklan.

We congratulate Daria Boklan on the publication and recommend everyone to read the article on the Journal’s website!