New Markets Lab

Congrats to Katrin Kuhlmann, Tara F., Indulekha Thomas, Malou Le Graet, Mushfiqur Rahman, Fabiola Madrigal, Maya S. Cohen, and Ata Ege Nalbantoğlu! NML's submission to the UN ESCAP Policy Hackathon on Model Provisions for Trade in Times of Crisis and Pandemic in Regional and Other Trade Agreements was selected to be featured in their online repository of contributions.

Join Professor Katrin Kuhlmann, President and Founder of New Markets Lab (NML), and Adron Naggayi Nalinya, Senior International Legal Specialist at NML, as they share insights from the comparative study that is the focus of this presentation on the use of regulatory system maps to evaluate and compare the design and implementation of domestic seed sector regulations across Africa. The study was conducted by NML in partnership with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). David Spielman, co-lead on the CGIAR Seed Equal Initiative and Director of IFPRI's Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit will moderate the discussion. Please use this link to register: https://lnkd.in/dwQeztua.

This #FellowFriday, we'd like to introduce you to Bruna da Silva Melo! Bruna joined the New Markets Lab as a sustainable development and energy law intern. A rising third-year at Brown University interested in international energy law, especially as it pertains to the Africa and MENA region, Bruna is the Chair of the Student Advisory Board of Brown University’s Africa Initiative. She also serves as the International Law Head Editor of the Brown Undergraduate Law Review. At NML, Bruna has explored Kenya’s pro-energy transition, focusing on how the Kampala Ministerial Declaration on Migration, Environment and Climate Change and other regional commitments were instrumental for Kenya to meet its climate goals.

Welcome back to Fellow Friday! This summer, Won-Gi Jung joined the New Markets Lab as a legal intern. A rising 2L at Harvard Law School with a keen interest in cross-border legal issues in international regulations, trade, and investment, Won-Gi previously worked as a reporter covering North Korea and as a paralegal in the Seoul office of a U.S. law firm. He also interned at the Korea Chair of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. With Summer Public Interest Funding from HLS, Won-Gi is working under our Agriculture Law Program, focusing on legal issues relating to plant variety protection laws in developing nations.

We are excited to announce that New Markets Lab (NML) is seeking applications for a research fellow to work under its Agricultural Law Program on substantive matters related to agricultural law and regulation. The research will be in line with NML’s mission to leverage law and regulation as a tool for sustainable and inclusive economic development. Applications are due by June 30, 2024. The fellowship award will be announced in July/August for a fellowship beginning in August/September for a period of four months. Details of the application can be found here: https://lnkd.in/gFwJ-Dv7.

We are excited to announce that New Markets Lab (NML) is seeking applications for a research fellow to work under its Agricultural Law Program on substantive matters related to agricultural law and regulation. The research will be in line with NML’s mission to leverage law and regulation as a tool for sustainable and inclusive economic development. Applications are due by June 30, 2024. The fellowship award will be announced in July/August for a fellowship beginning in August/September for a period of four months. Details of the application can be found here: https://lnkd.in/gFwJ-Dv7.

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the New Markets Lab’s new website! As we increasingly focus on empirical analysis, evidence-based policy work, and data-driven legal research, we wanted our website to reflect this dynamic in its design and make all of our published and ongoing work readily accessible. The platform includes NML’s research tools and its ongoing and past projects in international trade and agricultural regulation. It also includes the early stages of our new and easy-to-navigate Digital Regulatory Lab, the culmination of 15 years of empirical legal research, regulatory mapping, and in-depth analysis. The DRL highlights crucial data points on legal design, illustrates the connections between different substantive legal areas (including trade, agriculture, gender, labor, sustainable development, and more), and showcases our legal capacity building initiatives. Over time, the DRL will gain increasingly functionality to digitally highlight comparative findings from NML’s reports and provide data-driven and digital capacity building tools. More information on NML, along with our research tools and analysis ranging from NML’s Regulatory Systems Maps to reports and legal guides, can be found through this link: https://lnkd.in/gMSp-R9v. Katrin Kuhlmann