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1 – 4 February 2010
Edwin Vermulst, Vermulst Verhaeghe Graafsma & Bronckers Advocaten
Jorge Miranda, King & Spalding
The first part of a two week course on international trade remedies, this course comprises lectures and studies that deal primarily with US and EC Anti-dumping / Safeguards law and practices and how they relate to WTO law (the Anti-dumping and Safeguards Agreements). The course covers both substantive and procedural aspects from a practical perspective. Of interest to government, industry, practicing lawyers and NGOs interested in development issues.
Lecturers:
Edwin Vermulst has practiced international trade law and policy in Washington DC and Brussels since 1985 and is a founding partner of Vermulst Verhaeghe Graafsma & Bronckers Advocaten. He is a member of the Brussels bar A-list. Mr. Vermulst graduated from the University of Utrecht in 1983 and obtained LL.M and SJD degrees from the University of Michigan Law School in 1984 and 1986. Mr. Vermulst specializes in the defence of multinationals, trade associations and interested parties (exporters, importers and producers) in EC commercial defence and customs proceedings, for example, in the on-going anti-dumping investigations involving Footwear, Steel, Silicon metal, Ironing boards, etc. Mr. Vermulst was a WTO Panelist in Mexico-HFCS and has been involved in various WTO dispute settlement proceedings, most recently in EC-ITA and EC-Certain customs matters. He has (co-)authored eight books, including landmark comparative analyses of the anti-dumping systems of Australia, Canada, the EC and the US with Professor John Jackson in 1989 and of rules of origin with Jacques Bourgeois and Paul Waer in 1994, and numerous articles. His last book on the WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement was published in 2006 by Oxford University Press. Mr. Vermulst is a Member of the Faculty of the World Trade Institute in Bern. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of World Trade and the Global Trade and Customs Journal. Mr. Vermulst is invariably selected as a top trade practitioner by publications such as Who’s Who Legal, Legal 500, Chambers Global and the Rushford report.
Jorge Miranda is the Principal International Trade Advisor at King & Spalding LLP. Mr. Miranda is an economist with 15 years of experience in the area of trade remedies. He is co-author of A Handbook on Antidumping Investigations, jointly published by Cambridge University Press and the World Trade Organization in 2003, and has published a number of academic papers in this field. He served as a trade remedies expert in the WTO Secretariat from 1995 through 2002. In this capacity, he serviced several dispute settlement panels (including the landmark panels EC-Bed Linen and US-Lead and Bismuth II), and trained the trade remedy authorities of nearly 25 developing countries. Previously, he served as Deputy Director General for Dumping and Subsidy Investigations, and Director of Trade Policy, at the Mexican Ministry of Trade and Industry. Since joining King & Spalding, he has assisted parties involved in trade remedy proceedings conducted by China, Mexico, the EC, Peru, Australia, and Japan, and has been involved in four dispute settlement panels before the WTO. He also served as member of a bi-national panel under Chapter XIX of the NAFTA, and has conducted training courses on WTO trade remedy rules under the auspices of the WTO Secretariat, the Organization of American States, the Andean Community, and the International Development Law Institute. He has also consulted for UNCTAD. Mr. Miranda holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics from Georgetown University.
Cost: CHF 1’500 (2’700 together with II/06 Trade Remedies II)
Registration date: 25 January 2010
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Master Programme (MILE) 
