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Université Laval

Team

Myriam Rochette est candidate à la maîtrise en droit – droit international et transnational de l’Université Laval. Elle a également complété un baccalauréat intégré en affaires publiques et relations internationales de l’Université Laval. Lors de son parcours universitaire, elle s’est impliquée dans différentes activités, notamment en travaillant pour la Clinique de droit de la culture de la Faculté de droit de l'Université Laval  ainsi qu’en participant au Colloque international : Dix ans de Convention sur la protection et la promotion de la diversité des expressions culturelles : perspectives nationales et internationales en tant que bénévole.

Intérêts de recherche

Accords commerciaux  ; développement durable ; diversité culturelle ; droit international de la culture ; environnement ; relations internationales

Peer-reviewed articles

  • Morin, JF and M. Rochette (2017) "Transatlantic Convergence of PTAs’ Environmental Clauses" Business and Politics, vol. 19(4): 621-658.


    The United States (US) and the European Union (EU) include several environmental clauses in their respective preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Building on an exhaustive and fine-grained dataset of PTAs environmental clauses, this article makes two contributions. First, it show that the US and the EU have initially favored different approaches to environmental protection in their PTAs. US concerns over regulatory sovereignty and level playing field have conducted to a legalistic and adversarial approach, while EU concerns for policy coherence have led to a more procedural and cooperative approach. Second, this article provides evidence that European and American trade negotiators have gradually converged on a shared set of environmental norms. Although the US and the EU initially pursued different objectives, they learned from each other and drew similar lessons. As a result, recent American agreements have become more European-like, and European agreements have become more Americanized. This article concludes that US and EU approaches, far from being incompatible, can usefully be combined and reinforce each other.


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Book chapters