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II / 01 - Non-Discrimination in International Economic Law

4 – 7 January 2010 Marion Jansen, International Labour Organization Andrew Lang, London School of Economics These lectures cover the fundamental principles of Most-Favoured Nation Treatment and National Treatment in the WTO agreements. They concentrate on the jurisprudence of WTO Panels and the Appellate Body concerning GATT Articles I and III, and GATS Articles II and XVII. Non-discrimination is a core principle of the international trading system, and a detailed understanding of its meaning in international trade law will be of particular interest to all interested in WTO law, including government, NGOs, international lawyers and academics. Lecturers: Marion Jansen is a senior specialist for trade and employment in the Employment Sector of the International Labor Office.  Previous to joining the ILO she was a counsellor in the Economic Research and Statistics Division of the World Trade Organization.  In that position she co-authored the joint ILO-WTO study “Trade and Employment: Challenges for Policy Research”.  Marion Jansen holds a PhD in economics from the Universidad Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) and held different positions in academia and the private sector before joining the international institutions.  Her publications in the field of international economics have been published in journals like the Review of International Economics and World Economy and cover the areas of trade adjustment, government regulation, international finance, migration, services liberalization and labour markets. Andrew Lang is a Senior Lecturer in the Law Department of the London School of Economics, which he joined in September 2006. He is a co-founder and Executive Vice-President, with Colin Picker, of the Society of International Economic Law. He sits on the Editorial Boards of the Modern Law Review, the Journal of International Economic Law and the Law and Development Review, and is a Book Review Editor for the International and Comparative Law Quarterly. He has a combined BA/ LLB degree from the University of Sydney, and his PhD is from the University of Cambridge, graduating in May 2005. From 2004-2006, he was the Gott Research Fellow in Law at Trinity Hall, at the University of Cambridge. He is currently completing a book for OUP on the relationship between trade law and human rights law, and has acted as a consultant for the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative on Business and Human Rights, John Ruggie. Cost: CHF 1'500 Registration date: 14 December 2009