From the Editors in Chief

Abstract

With this issue, the Journal of International Economic Law launches its 26th volume and celebrates its silver anniversary with an Agora issue. The anniversary Agora has been organized and edited by our distinguished Editorial Board Members: Andrea Bjorklund and Gabrielle Marceau. It features symposium contributions from more than 20 scholars and practitioners and provides both a retrospective and future-oriented accounting of the field of international economic law 25 years after the founding of the Journal. We are especially pleased to feature articles by the leaders of four notable international economic law organizations. The Agora opens with essays from WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and General Counsel Rhoda Weeks-Brown, Deputy Director General of WIPO Lisa Jorgenson, and Secretary-General of ICSID Meg Kinnear. We thank Andrea and Gabrielle for all their efforts to make the Agora issue such a success! This issue also complements prior issues of the Journal and continues to reflect on how international economic law is implicated in the challenges and opportunities faced by societies across the planet. We aspire to be a truly global Journal with both an eye on the future and a sense of the past. We hope to continue to bring attention to ideas that can help confront modern challenges. This issue caps years of the Journal’s fruitful engagement with the main legal and policy debates in the field. We aim to trigger many interesting debates in years to come.