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Dr 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
Associate Professor
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
Greg has published on a range of topics in international law including on dispute settlement, sources of law, and, in particular, various aspects of trade law. His research principally examines the interaction between trade policy and public policy objectives such as improving public health, protecting the environment, and supporting sustainable development.
He is co-founder and Co-Director of the Trade & Public Policy (TaPP) Network, the largest multidisciplinary group of academic experts on UK trade policy. Additionally, he sits as TaPP representative on the the UK's Trade & Sustainable Development Domestic Advisory Group: an independent body, tasked with monitoring and advising the UK goverment on issues relating to the implementation of the trade and sustainable development chapters of the UK’s trade agreements.
Greg is co-Director of the University of Bristol Law School Centre for International Law, and was also Co-Rapporteur for the International Law Association (ILA) Committee on Sustainable Development and the Green Economy in International Trade Law, which concluded its mandate in 2022. The ILA Lisbon Recommendations were adopted in June that year.
As of 2023, he is 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.
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
The Development of World Trade Organization Law: Examining Change in International Law
The Development of World Trade Organization Law: Examining Change in International Law
Recent publications
01/01/2024The 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
Enhancing the Brexit Deal
Enhancing the Brexit Deal
Article XXXVII GATT
Commentaries on World Trade Law