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18 – 21 January 2010
Edwini Kessie, World Trade Organization
Peter Holmes, University of Sussex
This course focuses on regional integration and the manner in which it is related to the disciplines of WTO law by adopting both an economic and a legal perspective. Lectures include surveys of major economic zones and approaches outside of Europe such as NAFTA, Mercosur and ASEAN. The role and effects of rules of origin will be discussed. On the economic side the course will cover the basic economics of preferential agreements including the political economy of why countries join RTAs , the core ideas of trade creation and trade diversion, and the impact on competition and growth.
Lecturers:
Edwini Kessie works in the Council and Trade Negotiations Committee Division at the WTO, which has the responsibility for coordinating the negotiations which were launched in Doha, Qatar in November 2001. He is also a part-time lecturer in international trade law at the World Trade Institute in Berne, Switzerland and also the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. He has a Doctorate Degree in Law from the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia and Masters' Degrees in Law from the University of Toronto, Canada and the University of Brussels, Belgium and a Bachelor's Degree in Law from the University of Ghana. He is admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Courts of England & Wales, New South Wales, Australia and Ghana. He has practiced Corporate and Commercial Law in Sydney, Australia and International Trade Law and European Community Law in Brussels, Belgium. Dr. Kessie joined the WTO Secretariat in January 1995 and has worked in various divisions of the Secretariat including the Development Division, the Training Division and the legal unit of the Technical Cooperation Division, where he had the responsibility for assisting developing countries wishing to have recourse to the dispute settlement procedures of the WTO. Dr. Kessie has participated in many international conferences on international trade and written a number of articles on international trade issues.
Peter Holmes is Reader in the Economics University of Sussex where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on European Integration. He is also a visiting Professor at the College of Europe. He has been a consultant to the European Commission, the UK Dept of Business, UK DFID, UNCTAD and the World Bank. He has also taken part in numerous conferences and training courses on the EU, Regional Integration, and the WTO in various parts of Europe, and also South Africa, China and Washington DC. He has a BA and PhD in economics from the University of Cambridge. He has worked on the interface of law and economics, including anti-dumping, competition policy. His particular current interests include the implications of “deep” regulatory integration and the use of non econometric methods to quantify the gains from integration, (the “Sussex Framework”). His publications include books, articles and contributions to official reports. In the 1980s and 1990s he was a member of study groups set up by the European Commission to evaluate the Single Market. Apart from the EU itself he has worked on the EU’s relations with India, the EPAs and SADC and Mercosur, and the role of competition policy in RTAs.
Cost: CHF 1'500.-
Registration date: 11 January 2010
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Master Programme (MILE) 