Summer Academy 2011

The first two weeks of the WTI’s 9th Summer Academy offer an intensive professional development program on the law and policy of International Investment Agreements (IIAs). Its purpose is to provide an in-depth examination of the legal obligations and policy underpinnings of the negotiation and application of IIAs, both from a theoretical and practical perspective.

The first two weeks of the WTI’s 9th Summer Academy offer an intensive professional development program on the law and policy of International Investment Agreements (IIAs). Its purpose is to provide an in-depth examination of the legal obligations and policy underpinnings of the negotiation and application of IIAs, both from a theoretical and practical perspective.

This course explores the nexus of WTO law and international trade. At first it focuses on the legal parameters and evolution of the GATT and WTO Agreements. The course then analyses basic economic models and key empirical findings. A visit to the WTO is planned for Friday, 22 July 2011.

The relationship of climate change mitigation and adaptation and the multilateral trading system is the focus of week 4 of the Summer Academy. Implications for tariff negotiations, discussions on border tax adjustment, non-tariff barriers, in particular subsidies, services and intellectual property are discussed. The course also explores the scope and substance of a possible future WTO Agreement on Energy.

This course examines the links between foreign policy and trade, and discriminatory trade agreements as an instrument of foreign policy. It discusses problems of coherence between the WTO and other international organisations, the political issues surrounding trade and development, and prospects for structural reform of the WTO.