Prof Donatella Alessandrini

About

Donatella’s research and supervision interests are in the areas of international economic law, with a focus on trade and development theory, trade and inequalities, and law and feminist political economy. Her current research interrogates the claims of International Economic Institutions (such as the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation) about the development potential of Global Value Chains. In particular it examines the role trade law plays in the production and unequal distribution of economic value along these networks, asking what kind of arrangements might be able to shift current processes of global value making, with a focus on alternative labour, trade and finance-related arrangements. Informed by feminist economics and world system theories, her research therefore explores the relations between legal arrangements and socio-economic inequalities, speaking directly to the GCRF areas of sustainable economies and societies; and social justice.

She is the author of Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trade Regime: The Failure and Promise of the WTO’s Development Mission (Hart, 2010); “Immaterial Labour and Alternative Valorisation Processes in Italian Feminist Debates: (re)exploring the ‘commons’ of re-production” (2012) Feminists@Law 1 (2). pp. 1-28; and ‘A Social Provisioning Employer of Last Resort: Post-Keynesianism Meets Feminist Economics’ (2013) World Review of Political Economy, 4 (2); and Value-Making in International Economic Law and Regulation: Alternative Possibilities (Routledge, 2016). Alessandrini, D. (2018). Of Value, Measurement and Social Reproduction. Griffith Law Review.

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