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MILE 11 Week 22/23: Trade in Services

This course explores the law, economics and policy of trade in services. Emphasis is placed on the concept of trade in serv…

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25 February 2010
• To appreciate the conceptual complexities of liberalisation of trade in services
• To gain a keener understanding of how the economic characteristics of services transactions have shaped the law of services trade.
• To understand patterns of liberalisation in services trade to date and their key determinants
• To understand the general structure of the treatment of services in WTO law

26 February 2010
• To determine the level of liberalisation of a country by reading a schedule
• To understand the role that sectoral annexes play in services trade regulation, with particular emphasis on the treatment of financial services and telecommunications
• To understand the challenges of Mode 4 trade in services (labour mobility)

1-3 March 2009
• To grasp the broadness of the scope of the GATS
• To be able to interpret and apply the key terms of Articles II, XVI, XVII and XIV GATS in light of the relevant case law
• To assess the impact of the obligations of market access (Art. XVI) and national treatment (Art. XVII GATS) on trade liberalisation and domestic regulatory autonomy
• To consider the potential and limitations of Article XIV GATS to provide a balance between trade liberalisation and regulation
• To explore the relationship between domestic regulation and services trade, and prospects for new disciplines on non-discriminatory regulatory conduct
• To understand the evolving jurisprudence in services trade at the WTO level
• To analyse and critically assess the key GATS cases

4 March 2010
• Understanding the law and economics of preferential approaches to services liberalizations and the emerging lessons from the practice of PTAs covering services.
• Exploring some of the key lessons of a political economy nature emerging from the first two decades of rule-making and market-opening in services trade.
• Assessing future prospects for services trade liberalization and the challenges that negotiators must address and overcome to reap the full benefits of service sector reforms.

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This course explores the law, economics and policy of trade in services. Emphasis is placed on the concept of trade in serv…

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Amir Fouad
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MILE Fellow
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+41 31 631 36 28
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amir.fouad@wti.org
stefanie.allemann@wti.org

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