EFF's Jeremy Malcolm will be addressing the California International Law Centre at the University of California, Davis. As technology and services have assumed a more important place in modern trade agreements, the emphasis of such agreements has changed from addressing tariffs and quotas to addressing “behind the border” regulatory issues such as data flows. But trade negotiation processes have not kept pace with the public’s expectation that these issues be addressed in a transparent and consultative manner, creating a crisis of legitimacy that casts a shadow over several trade agreements currently under negotiation.