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11 – 14 January 2010
Paolo R. Vergano, Fratini/Vergano
Jaime De Melo, University of Geneva
Lectures and studies on tariffs, tariff restrictions, tariffication, VERs, tariff rate quotas and licensing regimes, the law of quantitative restrictions (methods, concessions, consolidation, bindings, compensation). Of particular interest to private sector trading, agriculture and government negotiations and regulation.
Lecturers:
Paolo R. Vergano is a partner at FratiniVergano - European Lawyers and a member of the firm’s Trade Group. His practice focuses on international trade law (i.e., WTO law, dispute settlement and trade negotiation in the areas of agriculture, services and non-tariff barriers such as sanitary and phytosanitary measures and technical barriers to trade). Mr. Vergano has extensive experience in advising Governments on WTO accession procedures and multilateral/regional trade negotiation. He represents private clients affected by WTO and FTA negotiations in the services sectors of postal and courier, energy and finance. Mr. Vergano started his professional career in Brussels in 1995, working on trade issues and early WTO dispute settlement procedures at the British law firm of Stanbrook and Hooper. Prior to co-founding FratiniVergano in 2007, he also worked at the European Parliament as a researcher with the External Economic Relations (REX) Committee, in the International Trade Group of White & Case LLP in Washington, DC and at O’Connor and Company in Brussels, where he became partner in 2005. Mr. Vergano is admitted in Belgium and is a member of the Brussels bar (A list), the IBA and ETLA. Mr. Vergano is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the University of Torino, Italy (1995), received a Diplôme Supérieur de Droit Comparé at the Faculté Internationale de Droit Comparé in Strasbourg, France (1996) and holds a Master’s degree in International Business and Trade Law from the University of Fordham School of Law in New York, United States (1997). He is a frequent lecturer and author on issues of WTO law.
Jaime de Melo, a founding member of the WTI, has taught economics at the University of Geneva since 1993. Previously, he held various positions in the Research Department at the World Bank where he worked between 1980 and 1993. He taught at Georgetown University from 1976 to 1980 and worked at USAID, the bilateral aid agency of the US from 1973 to 1976. He has been editor in chief of the World Bank Economic Review since 2005. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of a dozen books and has published extensively in the area of international trade policy, and has consulted with various governments and law firms. Most of his publications are available at http://ideas.repec.org/e/pde173.html
Cost: CHF 1'500
Registration date: 4 January 2010
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Master Programme (MILE) 
