Nicolas Lamp

About/Bio

Nicolas Lamp is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University, Canada. His current research focuses on competing narratives about the winners and losers from economic globalization and their implications for trade policy. His co-authored book (with Anthea Roberts) “Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters” was published by Harvard University Press in 2021.

Recently Published

What President Trump’s “Reciprocal” Tariffs Mean for International (Trade) Law

When US President Donald Trump announced the imposition of “reciprocal” tariffs on virtually the entire globe on April 2nd, many observers felt that they were witnessing a historic event—the “end of globalization as we know it”, the starting shot to an economic calamity on the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic or, as the prime minister of…

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How We Stop Talking Past Each Other: A Rejoinder to Hoekman and Nelson’s Reply to My Article on Narratives about Winners and Losers from Globalization

When Donald Trump was elected to the US presidency, the instinctive reaction of many public officials, trade economists and international economic lawyers was to fight back. And fight back they did – in reports, op-eds, blog posts, and interviews. It did not appear as though it would be particularly hard to win the argument: Trump’s economic illiteracy was…

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