The 8th WTI Summer Academy, 12 July - 13 August 2010
Launched in 2003, the World Trade Institute’s (WTI) Summer Academy addresses the increasing demand for up-to-date knowledge of the most cutting-edge issues in international trade regulation. Professionals, government officials, international civil servants, scholars, staff from non-governmental organizations and students who cannot attend the WTI’s full year Master’s programme can benefit from a compact exposure to – and a comprehensive inside look at – many of the hottest topics in trade regulation and global governance.
The forthcoming eighth WTI Summer Academy covers many of the most important and current topics in the field of international trade, from rule-making in services and investment to the commercial diplomacy of trade negotiations and the links between trade remedies and climate change mitigation. Mastering the economic impacts, legal principles, and political feasibility of trade regulation is a highly interdisciplinary challenge. Our courses are co-taught by many of the world’s leading practitioners, drawn from the fields of economics, law and international political economy. Participants with a diverse background of professional and academic expertise learn to blend the policy aspects of trade with thorough legal interpretation and economic analysis while establishing contacts with fellow professionals and faculty from all over the world.
As with the WTI’s flagship Master of International Law and Economics (MILE) programme, the weekly modules of the Summer Academy can be attended on a flexible “à la carte” basis in order to accommodate a wide range of training needs and interests. Participants have access to the WTI’s state of the art facilities, technical resources and library. All lectures are taught in English and admission to the Academy is limited to 65 participants per week. While staying in the heart of Europe, participants can discover Berne’s many summertime charms and take advantage of the programme’s field trip to the world’s leading institutions of trade governance in Geneva.
For more information on the Summer Academy, visit our website at www.wti.org or contact Gaby Hofer at
Registered participants for the 2010 Summer Academy will have login information for the University of Bern/World Trade Institute online course management system sent to them via email in the first week of July. With this login information, participants will have access to the course syllabi and readings, in addition to being provided with a binder of the printed compulsory readings upon their arrival. The official schedule for the Summer Academy is now availabe below.
Summer Academy
