The WTO Chair and Co-Chair from Mexico had a met Ambassador Roberto Zapata, the Ambassador to Mexican Permanent Mission at World Trade Organization at the Mexican Mission, Geneva. Had very interesting discussions on the future of the multilateral trading system and how the Mission can offer more internships to our students for domestic capacity-building.
The newly constituted International Trade and Investment Law Group (of Law Schools Global League - LSGL) presented four work-progress papers at the Research Workshop organised at University of Turin. The theme was: The recent trends in international trade: protection or protectionism? Four work-in-progress papers ar authored by Dr. Johanna Jacobsson (IE, Madrid); Dr. Ru Ding (CUPL, Beijing); Dr. Daria Boklan (HSE, Moscow) and Dr. Amrita Bahri (ITAM, Mexico City); and Professor Jide Nzelibe (Northwestern University, Chicago).
This course focussed on the laws, principles, functioning and jurisprudence of World Trade Law. Students looked at the principles of multilateral and bilateral trade and engaged with the practice of international trade law with the help of current jurisprudence and hypothetical dispute scenarios. The students received an appreciation of the purpose and functions of the WTO and be familiar with its principal rules, impact and jurisprudence.
Mr. Daniel Abala gave a presentation on how to attract FDI in Keny. His presentation, covered the following points:
World Trade Organisation grants rights to its Members, and WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding provides a rule-oriented consultative and judicial mechanism to protect these rights in cases of WTO-incompatible trade infringements. However, the DSU participation benefits come at a cost. These costs are acutely formidable for least developing countries which have a small market size and trading stakes. No LDC has ever filed a WTO compliant, with the only exception of India-Battery dispute filed by Bangladesh against India.
I presented this most recent article at the LSGL Academic Conference in the University of Stockholm, Stockholm. In my presentation, I argued why we need to rescue and strengthen the WTO dispute settlement mechanism and the overall multilateral trading system. This paper will soon be published in the Journal of World Trade (53.2) 2019
I presented my upcoming research project on 'Economic Empowerment of Women: Through International Trade Law and Technology' at IMS Research Workshop, IMS Unison University, India. I am attaching the presenatation here.
The renegotiation of NAFTA was surrounded by a dramatic atmosphere, just as Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland predicted. The negotiations took place against a backdrop of unilateral trade measures, President Trump’s mercantilist approach to trade policy, and the United States’ specified preference for bilateral trade deals. This article argues that, for the most part, economic, political and cultural relations in the NAFTA countries are bilateral in nature, but with important trilateral production chains in specific sectors, most notably in the automotive sector.
WCP Chair holder Michael Ewing-Chow organized a WTO panel "Trade and X: the Future of the WTO" with other WCP Chair holders Bradly Condon, Valentina Delich, Pinar Artiran, chaired by Mark Wu and commented by Henry Gao at the SIEL conference in Washington DC in July 2018. Conference link: http://www.sielnet.org/SIEL2018
The website has been updated and is being used to disseminate information. Website for the Research Center for International Trade Law and Arbitration can be found at:
https://utitam-wcp.bilgi.edu.tr. The WCP website is used to disseminate information to students, wider public and all the trade related stakeholders and also serve as a means to network with the other WTO Chair Holders in the world. Electronic newsletter is underway to disseminate information to various stakeholders and promote the RCITA’s activities.