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25 February – 4 March 2010
Pierre Sauvé, World Trade Institute
Marion Panizzon, World Trade Institute
Markus Krajewski, University of Potsdam
Lectures and studies regarding the liberalization of trade in services (GATS). The course involves an in-depth introduction into the scope and contents of the GATS and its key legal principles and obligations with a special focus on the relevant GATS case law and the function and structure of the schedules of specific commitments. Further emphasis will be placed on negotiations and adequate negotiating approaches (bilateral, plurilateral or multilateral, request & offer or formula-based), commitments (schedules, conditions) and specific areas, in particular public services such as health and education. This course also comprises discussions of the developmental implications of services trade, the need and scope for trade remedies in services (safeguards and countervailing duties), as well as the status of the MFN requirement and possible departures under the GATS (including MFN exemptions, preferential trade agreements, recognition measures) and, in this context, the role of bilateral labour market agreements and investment treaties.
Lecturers:
Pierre Sauvé is Deputy Managing Director and Director of Studies at the World Trade Institute (WTI), in Berne, Switzerland, where he teaches in the WTI’s MILE programme and directs a Swiss National Foundation research project on the evolving international regulatory framework in service industries (2005-9). He is a Visiting Lecturer and Research Associate in the International Trade Policy Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), in London, U.K., and also holds a Visiting Professor appointments in the International Relations Department at the College of Europe, in Bruges, Belgium and at the University of Barcelona Law School, whose LLM programme in International Economic Law and Policy (IELPO) he advises. Since 1999, he has taught in the Academy of International Law’s annual Summer Academy on the Law and Economics of the WTO, held in Macau. He is a Senior Fellow of the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), in Brussels, Belgium, since its launch in October 2006. He was a Visiting Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences-Po), in Paris, France, in 2003–04 and has worked as a consultant for the World Bank since January 2003. From 1998–2000, he taught at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during which period he was also appointed Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, in Washington, D.C. He served as Canada’s services negotiator in the North American Free Trade Agreement and was a staff member at the Bank for International Settlements, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the OECD Trade Directorate. In 2007, he was a member of the Warwick Commission on the future of the multilateral trading system. Pierre Sauvé’s research interests focus on the evolution of rule-making for services trade and investment and the impact that regional integration agreements exert on the design and operation of the multilateral trading system.
Markus Krajewski is currently Guest Professor at the Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich) "Transformations of the State" of the University of Bremen (Germany) where he works on trade liberalisation and social regulation in transnational structures. Since July 2009 he also directs a capacity building programme on WTO law for the Law Faculty of Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He is on leave from the University of Potsdam where he was Assistant Professor for European, international and German public law. He has been a visiting lecturer at the Postgraduate Programme in European Studies in Berlin, the World Trade Institute in Berne and the Academy of European Law in Florence. He is a frequent consultant on international trade law for governmental institutions and non-governmental organisations. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg (Germany) and is qualified to practice law in Germany. He also holds a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in international relations from Florida State University (USA). His research interests include constitutional and institutional issues of WTO law, GATS, external relations of the EC/EU, and the treatment of public services under European and international law. He is the author of three books on international economic law and of various articles in law journals and edited volumes.
Cost: CHF 2'000.-
Registration date: 15 February 2010
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Master Programme (MILE) 
