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3 – 6 May 2010
Pierre Sauvé, World Trade Institute
Andreas R Ziegler, University of Lausanne
Lectures and studies on the economic principles behind international investment activities in the global economy and the role and implications of WTO law (TRIPs, GATS) for investment. Analysis of multilateral and bilateral rules on international investment, in particular with regard to investment protection and promotion in bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and at the multilateral level. A particular emphasis lies on problems related to investment arbitration and its implications for the development of rules and procedures in this field. Discussion of prospects for existing (TRIMs) and future rules within and outside the WTO. Of interest to practitioners from NGOs interested in development, or from government institutions, international lawyers and academics.
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.
Andreas R. Ziegler studied international economics, international relations and law at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (France), the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and the University of London (SOAS, UK). After undertaking post-doctoral research at Georgetown University (Washington DC, USA) and the Max-Planck-Institute in Heidelberg (Germany) he taught European Union Law, international trade law and environmental law at the Chicago Kent College of Law in Chicago (USA), the University of Pittsburgh (USA) and the University of St. Gallen. For several years he worked in practice for the Swiss Government (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs), the European Commission (DG Internal Market), in the Secretariat of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and in a law firm in Zurich on trade and investment issues. In this function he negotiated many multilateral and bilateral agreements and was also a delegate to the WTO, UNCTAD, the OECD, the Energy Charter and other international organizations. He is currently a professor of international law at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and a Counsel with the law firm of Froriep Rengli. He is on the WTO’s roster of official panelists as well as on the list of conciliators of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). He is the Academic Director of the LLM Program in International and European Economic and Commercial Law at the University of Lausanne and a Deputy Director of the NCCR Trade based at the World Trade Institute of the University of Berne (Switzerland). He is a visiting professor at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) since 1997, at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology (ETH, Zurich) since 2004 and at the Europe Institute of the University of the Saarland (Saarbrucken, Germany) since 2008. He held similar positions at the Università commerciale Luigi Bocconi in Milan (Italy 2005-7), the University of Vilnius (Lithuania, 2007), the University of Munich (Germany, 2007) and the University of Lund (Sweden, 2008).
Cost: CHF 1’500.-
Registration date: 26 April 2010
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