Global law firm White & Case LLP has been chosen as a recipient of the Burton Awards’ Law360 Distinguished Legal Writing Award 2025. Among entries submitted by the nation's 1,000 largest law firms, only 20 are selected for the prize.
The article, titled "The Rise of Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and the Next Generation of International Rules Governing Cross-Border Data Flows and Digital Trade – Part I and Part II," discusses the proliferation of barriers to cross-border data flows and the current global legal architecture that governs the digital economy, including current WTO and trade agreement disciplines applicable to such barriers.
The article also addresses new digital trade initiatives and concludes with an outlook regarding efforts to negotiate new agreements that aim to strike an appropriate balance between facilitating digital trade and international data flows and preserving the space of governments to regulate in the public interest.
The two-part article was published in the 2024 spring and summer editions of The Global Trade Law Journal.
The Burton Awards ceremony will be held on May 19 at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Click here to see a list of the winners.
