Professor Greg Messenger
LLB(Hons), BCL, MPhil, DPhil
Expertise
Trade law and policy specialist. Particular focus on the use of trade policy to support public policy objectives including protecting health, supporting climate policy and sustainable development, and improving security.
Current positions
Professor of Trade Law and Policy
University of Bristol Law School
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Biography
Greg joined Bristol Law School as an Associate Professor in 2022. He was previously Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool, and prior to that, Junior Research Fellow in Law at the Queen's College, Oxford. He holds an undergraduate degree in law (LLB) from the University of Edinburgh, and a masters (BCL) and doctorate (DPhil) from the University of Oxford.
Greg spent four years working on trade law and policy in the UK government: first in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office as an AHRC-ESRC-FCO Knowledge Exchange Fellow (2018-2020) and then as a Trade Policy Specialist in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (2020-2022).
He is, with Emily Jones (University of Oxford), the co-founder of the Trade & Public Policy (TaPP) Network, the UK's largest network of academic trade experts.
Research interests
I am a specialist in the law and policy of world trade, currently working on the practice of economic diplomacy as an undertheorized field of study in international law.
I examine the use of economic diplpomacy to pursue public policy objectives such as protecting the environment, supporting sustainable development, and improving public health (in the case of the latter, principally as joint-lead on an interdisciplinary three-year NIHR-funded project to examine the how governments can best present public health measures at the committees of the World Trade Organization).
As co-founder and Co-Director of the Trade & Public Policy (TaPP) Network, the largest multidisciplinary group of academic experts on UK trade policy, I work closely with policy practitioners to develop my research projects.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Navigating Trade Challenge at the World Trade Organization to Prevent Non-Communicable Diseases and Promote Better Health for All
Principal Investigator
Description
This NIHR project researches the role of evidence in challenges to member state health promotion policies in the Technical Barriers to Trade Committee of the World Trade Organisation.Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/07/2023 to 30/06/2026
Publications
Selected publications
03/06/2024Mitigating the Rise of Unilateralism
Journal of International Economic Law
Free Trade Agreements as Sites of Economic Diplomacy
World Trade Review
Commentaries on World Trade Law: Volume 2
Commentaries on World Trade Law: Volume 2
Recent publications
01/06/2024The Legal Links between Free Trade Agreements and Multilateral Environmental Agreements
The Sustainability Revolution in International Trade Agreements
Free Trade Agreements as Sites of Economic Diplomacy
World Trade Review
Mitigating the Rise of Unilateralism
Journal of International Economic Law
The Standards - Regulation Nexus
The Standards - Regulation Nexus
Enhancing the Brexit Deal
Enhancing the Brexit Deal