We hear a lot in the news about Big Tech companies and the role they are playing in our society and democracies. Niels Kirst recently presented at Yale Law School a paper titled “Big Tech, The Rule of Law and Democracy” he is today discussing w

6: Special Episode on Latin America (with Andrés Delgado)

Oct 5th, 2020 25m 46s

On Global Pills we will be dedicating some episodes to the analysis of specific regions of the world and their role in shaping globalisation. Today we talk about Latin America, its internal tensions its relation with the United States, China an

5: Is healthy food healthy? Can you trust the food label? (with Alie de Boer)

Sep 21st, 2020 19m 38s

In the supermarket, you can find many different products. You can use the information on the label of a product to decide whether a specific product is the healthiest choice for you today. But when can food producers for example say that a prod

4: Dos and don'ts of copyright protection in the digital age (with Eleonora Rosati)

Sep 14th, 2020 24m 46s

Since we get up in the morning and listen to our favourite music until we go to bed at night reading a book we all interact with copyright multiple times per day. Today we discuss with Dr Eleonora Rosati what is copyright, how international coo

3: Unpacking the crisis of the WTO and the challenge of climate change (with Dmitry Grozoubinski)

Sep 7th, 2020 35m 7s

2: What is the WTO and why Donald Trump does not like it (with Dmitry Grozoubinski)

Aug 31st, 2020 20m 2s

The World Trade Organization is virtually one of most successful and influential experiments of international cooperation. Loved by some and hated by others, the WTO has been at the centre of the debates on globalisation since its creation in 1

1: Do European Union's free trade agreements make our food less safe? (with Emily Rees)

Aug 24th, 2020 19m 54s

There has been a lot of discussion in the news about free trade agreements concluded by the European Union and how they affect the food we eat. You might have heard for instance of acronyms like CETA and issues such as chlorinated chicken or ca

2: What are free trade agreements ?

Aug 4th, 2020 14m 42s

This episode introduces the difference between the World Trade Organization (WTO) and free trade agreements such as CETA or the CPTPP. Why are they so controversial? Why are they considered beneficial?

1: Pilot - What is the World Trade Organization (WTO)?

Aug 4th, 2020 14m 39s

In this episode in 15 minutes we go through the history and main functions of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Why do we need it? is it useful?

0: Intro - Taking your global pills

Aug 3rd, 2020 3m 26s

The idea for this podcast came during the 2020 Covid lockdown in Barcelona. I am an academic teaching globalisation, the European Union and the WTO in the top law school of the country and I was trying to overcome the many constraints of the n

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