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8 – 12 March 2010
Youri Devuyst, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Gary N. Horlick, Law Offices of Gary N. Horlick
Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs
Vera Thorstensen, Mission of Brazil to the WTO
The European Union (EU) is one of the world's main actors in international trade policy. The first part of this course provides an introduction to the EU's law and policies and its role in international trade relations. The first part is devoted to the EU's constitutional foundations: the evolution in membership and treaty-basis, the division of powers between the EU and its member states, the EU's institutional functioning and law-making process. Moreover, an overview of the EU’s main economic policies is provided and the EU’s external relations are discussed. In the second part special attention will be given to the actual operation of EC trade policy, and to analyzing how trade interests of this diverse group of countries are pursued within the WTO framework. It inquires how private parties can appeal to WTO law when challenging EU measures or, through the EU, third country measures.
Lecturers:
Youri Devuyst teaches politics, institutions and law of the European Union at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium. At the VUB, he is affiliated with the LLM Program on International Legal Cooperation (Faculty of Law) and the Department of Political Science. Mr. Devuyst has worked in the Cabinet of the European Commissioner for competition policy and in several other European Commission services. He also served in the Cabinet of three successive Belgian Ministers of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Devuyst received his doctorate in political science, an LLM in international and comparative law and a postgraduate degree in international and European law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He also holds an MA in international relations from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. Mr. Devuyst's articles have been published in such journals as World Competition, the Journal of World Trade, the Journal of Common Market Studies, the Journal of European Public Policy, the European Foreign Affairs Review, the Journal of European Integration, Global Governance, the Berkeley Journal of International Law. His latest book is entitled The European Union Transformed: Community Method and Institutional Evolution from the Schuman Plan to the Constitution for Europe.
Gary Horlick is an international lawyer specializing in matters of international trade in goods or services. He is also a Lecturer at Yale Law School (1983-1986, 2001-present), Georgetown Law Center (1986-present), and the World Trade Institute since 2001. He is a US national, and was educated at Dartmouth College, Cambridge University and Yale Law School. He has previously held the positions of U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, 1981-1983; International Trade Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, 1981; Attorney with the Washington law firm of Steptoe & Johnson, 1976-1981 and Assistant Representative, Ford Foundation, Santiago, Chile and Bogota, Colombia (after starting as Assistant to the Representative), 1973-1976. He was the first Chairman for the WTO's Permanent Group of Experts on Subsidies.
Ambassador Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch is Head of the World Trade, Delegate of the Federal Council for Trade Agreements, Member of the Executive Board, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) in the Federal Department of Economic Affairs (FDEA) in Berne since April 2007. She is responsible for World Trade (WTO, Free Trade Agreements/EFTA and OECD).
From 1999 - 2007 she was Head of the Division WTO, OECD and public procurement at the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) in the Federal Department of Economic Affairs (FDEA) in Berne. She was responsible for the preparation and coordination of the overall position of Switzerland in WTO negotiations and represents Switzerland in the Doha negotiations on market access for industrial products and the relationship between trade and environment.
Before joining the WTO Division she was member of the negotiating team for investment protection agreements and worked in the legal service of the former Federal Office for Foreign Economic Affairs. In 1992/1993, just after the accession of Switzerland to the Bretton Woods institutions, Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch worked as the Assistant to the Executive Director of the Swiss constituency in the World Bank.
Vera Helena Thorstensen has been the Economic Advisor to the Mission of Brazil since 1995, following the WTO negotiations on trade policy issues and the Doha Round. She is the Editor of the Carta de Genebra, a newsletter on WTO and the Doha Round, since 2001. She is also the Coordinator of the Internship Program at the Mission of Brazil since 2002. She has been the Chair of the Committee on Rules of Origin of the WTO from 2004 till the present.
Academic qualifications:
Visiting Scholar of the IBD - Inter-American Development Bank in the Chief Economist Office; Post Doctoral Program I - CEPS - Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels; Post Doctoral Program II - Center for European Studies, Catholic University, Lisbon; Post Doctoral Program III - Harvard University and MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; Doctor Degree - Getulio Vargas Foundation, São Paulo, Brazil.
Cost: CHF 1'750.-
Registration date: 1 March 2010
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