This is the first book-length treatment of the advancement of EU global data flows and digital trade through the framework of European institutionalisation. Drawing on case studies of EU-US, EU-Japan and EU-China relations it charts the theoretical and empirical approaches at play. It illustrates how the EU has pioneered high standards in data flows and how it engages in significant digital trade reforms, committed to those standards. The book marks a major shift in how institutionalisation and the EU should be viewed as it relates to two of the more extraordinary areas of global governance: trade and data flows. This significant book will be of interest to EU constitutional lawyers, as well as those researching in the field of IT and data law.

Prof. Elaine Fahey is Professor of Law and Jean Monnet Chair in Law and Transatlantic Relations at City, Law School, City, University of London, UK.

Introduction
1. EU as a Global Data Actor: Nudging Convergence and Capture
2. EU as a Digital Trade Actor
3. EU as a Cyber Actor: Institutionalising EU Cyber Law
4. On the Transatlantic Divide: Beyond Weak Institutionalisation
5. East Asia Convergence: EU-Japan Relations and Data
6. East Asian Reverse Convergence? EU-China Relations