Abstract
In Ecological Sensitivity and Global Legal Pluralism , Oren Perez ‘rethinks’ the nature of the trade and environment ‘conflict’ that has been with us since 1990s. He attributes this conflict to two glaring blind spots: the failure to consider that the issue pervades the international system, occurring in a variety of institutional settings outside of the World Trade Organization (WTO) (blind spot 1); and the binary characterisations of liberalised trade as good (‘free traders’) or bad (‘greens’) based on narrow perspectives on the matter (blind spot 2). Of the first blind spot, Perez rightly suggests that the trade and environment conflict is not just about the WTO, despite its power and prestige. Instead, the debate occurs in a variety of autonomous institutions that adhere to different agendas, and there exists no hierarchy of norms or institutions among these diffuse arenas. The failure to recognise this, according to Perez, has resulted...
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