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25 – 29 January 2010
William Davey, University of Illinois
Lothar Ehring, European Commission
Lectures on the basic principles, institutions, and proceedings of the WTO dispute settlement system as well as on WTO dispute settlement practice to date. Case law relating to jurisdiction of and access to the system and rules of interpretation and burden of proof is extensively discussed. Also the rules of conduct, the remedies for breach of WTO law and the special rules and assistance for developing-country Members are dealt with in detail. The course concludes with a day-long simulation exercise.
Lecturers:
William J. Davey retired as the Guy Raymond Jones Chair in Law at the University of Illinois College of Law in August 2008. He had taught at the College since 1984 and continues to teach a course on international trade law. From 1995 to 1999, he was the Director of the Legal Affairs Division of the World Trade Organization. Professor Davey is the author of Legal Problems of International Economic Relations (5th ed. 2008, with Jackson & Sykes); Enforcing World Trade Rules (2006); European Community Law (2d ed. 2002, with Bermann, Goebel & Fox); Pine & Swine: Canada-United States Trade Dispute Settlement (1996); and Handbook of WTO/GATT Dispute Settlement (1991-2000, with Pescatore & Lowenfeld), and the editor (with Jackson) of The Future of International Economic Law (2008), as well as the author of many articles on various international trade law issues. He is Associate Editor of the [Oxford] Journal of International Economic Law and co-General Editor of the Cambridge University Press International Trade and Economic Law book series. In December 2007 the University of Bern awarded Professor Davey a JD h.c., inter alia, "for his fundamental work in the development and evolution of the World Trade Organization's dispute settlement system." After leaving the WTO he served on WTO arbitral panels in respect of international trade disputes between Canada and Brazil, the European Union and Korea, and the European Union and the United States. After his graduation from the University of Michigan Law School in 1974, he served as a law clerk to Judge J. Edward Lumbard and Justice Potter Stewart and worked in Brussels and New York for Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.
Lothar Ehring currently is the Assistant to Mr. Péter Balás, Deputy Director-General at the Directorate-General for Trade of the European Commission, responsible for multilateral affairs, as well as bilateral trade relations with Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Until recently, Lothar Ehring served in the Unit of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Trade that is responsible for Legal Aspects of Trade Policy. He was the Coordinator for legal issues of multilateral trade, handled a number of current WTO disputes and also represented the European Community in the negotiations on the reform of the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding. Lothar Ehring specializes on horizontal questions of dispute settlement, the law of non-discrimination, trade in agriculture and institutional questions of the WTO, topics on which he also lectures at universities and publishes in law reviews.
Prior to his appointment to the European Commission, Lothar Ehring briefly worked as Legal Affairs Officer in the Legal Affairs Division and the Appellate Body Secretariat of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, on dispute settlement cases and occasionally training trade officials from Member governments. He graduated in law from the University of Passau in Germany, holds the German qualification for the judicial office and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University.
Cost: CHF 1’750.-
Registration date: 18 April 2010 |
Master Programme (MILE) 
