27 – 28 May 2010
Felix Addor, Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property
The objective of this two-part course is the development of systematic skills in diagnosing and managing trade related negotiations at bilateral, plurilateral and multilateral levels. It is an experience based course consisting of presentations of negotiation theory and concepts followed by application in class through negotiation exercise and a large scale negotiation simulation. More specifically, the aims of the Course are:
- to increase participants’ awareness about negotiation
- to provide ”theory for practitioners” – some concepts and tools for thinking about negotiation
- to enhance participants’ skills in diagnosing and managing trade related negotiations
- to give participants some real view on how negotiations are done at the WTO
- and finally to learn from experience, and from each other, so we all keep getting better.
The students are provided with behavioural and strategic instruments developed by Felix Addor and/or international negotiation centres. Negotiation exercises are drawn from different contexts, from legal to personal, from bilateral to multilateral. Part II of the course, the International Negotiation Workshop, provides the students with a complex negotiation simulation based on an international real life trade negotiation. Students will gain experience in using negotiation techniques and trade related case material. Methods to accomplish these objectives will include readings, lectures, case analyses, role play exercises, simulations, class discussions, and self-assessment instruments.
Most exercises in both, the Negotiation Basics Course and in the Negotiation Workshop depend on every participant playing a certain role. Apart from the general course preparation, you will be asked to do individual preparation on the first and second evening of the International Negotiation Basics Course. Moreover, in the International Negotiation Workshop, you will be asked to stay until 20:00 on the first day's evening. As any absence is likely to cause significant inconvenience and loss of opportunity to oneself and to others, you are invited to organize yourself accordingly.
Lecturer:
Felix Addor serves as the Deputy Director General and Chief Legal Counsel at the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (Swiss Department of Justice), the federal agency in charge of all intellectual property matters in Switzerland (www.ige.ch). In his capacity as Director of the Division of Legal & International Affairs, he is responsible for legal and policy matters regarding all fields of intellectual property at the national and international level since 1999, and he heads Swiss negotiating delegations to the relevant international fora, such as the World Trade Organization and the World Intellectual Property Organization, and to bi- and plurilateral negotiations. Mr. Addor is also a part-time Professor of Law at the University of Bern, School of Law. He lectures on topics of international negotiations, global governance and international intellectual property law at the University of Bern, the World Trade Institute and on the LL.M. Program in Cross-Cultural Business Practice of the University of Fribourg. Besides, Mr. Addor is the Vice-President of STOP PIRACY - the Swiss Anti-Counterfeiting and Piracy Platform, a Member of the Boards of the Swiss Forum for Communication Law and of the Swiss Association for Competition Law, and a Member of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property. Mr. Addor has authored numerous articles and he is a regular lecturer on various issues of intellectual property, civil procedure and enforcement law, international arbitration and negotiation. He received an M Law (magna cum laude) and a Dr. iur. (summa cum laude - awarded by the Prof. Walther Hug Foundation Prize) from the University of Bern, and he has been admitted to the Canton Bern State Bar since 1990.
Cost: CHF 1’000.-
Registration date: 17 May 2010
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