Annual Conference on WTO Law...Apr 24, 2017 · Georgetown Law and the Graduate Institute 9 & 10 June 2017 Sponsors of this conference include: • Niall Meagher, Executive Director,

Thisconferenceisgenerouslysponsoredby:

This conference benefits from academic input and guidance from the Society of International Economic Law, which nominatesindividualsfortheAcademicCommitteeandwhosePresident,GabrielleMarceau,graciouslyprovidesadviceandassistance.

GeorgetownLawandtheGraduateInstitute,Geneva

AnnualConferenceonWTOLaw9&10June2017

ProgrammeStatus24thApril2017

TheGraduateInstitute,GenevaMaisondelaPaix,CheminEugène-Rigot2,1202Genève

and

WorldTradeOrganizationRuedeLausanne154,1202Genève

GeorgetownLawandtheGraduateInstitute 9&10June2017

Sponsorsofthisconferenceinclude:

Friday,9thJune2017(HeldattheGraduateInstitute–RoomA1)

Registration 08:00ONWARDS

WelcomeandOpeningRemarksChristopherBrummer,ProfessorofLawandFacultyDirector,IIEL,GeorgetownLaw

Joost Pauwelyn,Professorof InternationalLaw,Graduate Institute,Co-DirectorCTEIandVisitingProfessorofLaw,GeorgetownLaw

08:45–09:00

Session 1. ROUNDTABLE: The Globalization Backlash: Where Have Trade AgreementsFailedandWhatWillorShouldNext-GenerationTradePolicyLookLike?This interactive roundtable will address a series of related and interdependent topics thatinternationaleconomic lawmayneedtoaddress in thewakeof recentreferenda(one.g.Brexit),national parliamentary votes (on e.g. CETA) and nation-wide elections (in theUS and elsewhere)that seem to reflect a broader globalization “backlash” and may herald the return of economicnationalism. Starting frombasic economic facts:What have been the gains and losses related totradeand theprocessofglobalization?Whatabout tradeand inequality, tradeand jobs?Where,and forwhom,may tradepoliciesand tradeagreementshave failed:Do they sufficientlyaddressquestionsof inequality, themiddle class, SMEs?Have trade agreements failedbynot sufficientlyaddressingtopicssuchasexchangerates,statecapitalismandprivatizationor,dependingonwhomyou ask, agriculture and domestic support? In this context, roundtable participants will addressrecentdevelopmentsconcerningdomestictradepolicy,theTPP,NAFTAandtheTTIP,thepotentialturn towards less ambitious trade arrangements and its implications for the WTO. Does the“backlash”againsttradeliberalizationmeanthattheeraof(certaintypesof)tradedealshascometoanend?Isthefuturecharacterizedbyincreasedprotectionism?Doavenuesexisttoaddresspastfailuresandthe–concomitant–riseofeconomicnationalism?Whatexactprovisionscouldtradedealsincludetoaddresspastfailuresandtorespondtotoday’s“backlash”?Moderator:GaryHorlick,Partner,LawOfficesofGaryN.Horlick

• TedAlden,AuthorofFailuretoAdjust&SeniorFellowattheCouncilonForeign

Relations• Paul Blustein, Award-Winning Journalist & Senior Fellow at the Centre for

InternationalGovernanceInnovation• MarcoBronckers,ProfessorofWTOandEULaw,LeidenUniversity• TheaLee,DeputyChiefofStaff,AFL-CIO• OisinSuttle,Lecturer,SchoolofLaw,UniversityofSheffield**

09:00–10:45

COFFEEBREAK–POSTERPRESENTATIONSSESSIONS1&2 10:45–11:15

**‘YoungVoice’selectedbytheAcademicCommitteefollowingacallforpapersrestrictedtojuniorscholars.

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Session 2. ROUNDTABLE: Brexit and The Legal Consequences for Global Trade Relations:ConsiderationsunderUK&EULawandWTO&FTAAgreementsBrexit has thrown into sharp relief questions that have so far been neglected: How can a countryextractitselffromtheEUgivendomestic/constitutionallawandEUtreatyrules?WhatdoesthatmeanfortheUK’smembershiptotheWTOandpartystatustoexistingandfutureFTAs?HowshouldnotonlytheUKbutalsoothercountriesincludingnon-EUmembersandespeciallydevelopingcountriesengagein this difficult exercise?What does it mean for UK-related existing and future trade remedies andFTAs? This panel will focus on legal questions and aims to go beyond WTO-related questions ofschedulesandUKapportionmentofEUglobalcommitments (TRQs,AMS,etc.) toaddressalso issuesunder domestic/constitutional and EU law and, especially, challenges under other international lawcommitments,inparticularFTAsandEPAs.Moderator: Gabrielle Marceau, President of SIEL; Professeure Associée, Faculty of Law,UniversityofGeneva;andSeniorCounsellor,LegalAffairsDivision,WTO

• MattiaCosta,TeachingAssistant,PoliticalScienceDepartment,GenoaUniversity**• Holger Hestermeyer, Shell Reader in International Dispute Resolution at King’s

CollegeLondonandFormerSpecialistAdviser,HouseofLordsEUForeignAffairsSub-CommitteeonBrexitandtheOptionsforTradeaswellasBrexit:TradeinGoods

• Fiona Smith, Professor of International Economic Law, University of Warwick &SpecialAdviserforReportonBrexitandAgriculture,HouseofLords

• IsabelleVanDamme,Associate,VanBael&Bellis;andformerlyRéférendaireattheEuropeanCourtofJustice,ChambersofAdvocateGeneralSharpston

11:15–13:00

LUNCHBREAK–POSTERPRESENTATIONSSESSION3 13:00–14:00

Session3.PANEL:MakingTradeDisputeSettlementMoreEffectiveandInclusive:InformalReformsattheWTOandAlternativeHardandSoftLawSystemsinandoutsideoftheWTOWith formalDSU reform in gridlock, this panelwill focuson renewed informal efforts toupdate theWTO dispute settlement process. It will discuss DDG Brauner's Informal “DS Efficiency Process” andCanada’s DSB Proposal for an Informal Framework for Procedural DSU Innovation. Discussions onpossiblyreviewingAppellateBodyappointmentproceedingsandconditionsarealsotopical.Therehasalso been renewed interest in concluding soft law instruments at the WTO as well as using softermechanisms to address trade concerns (e.g. the special trade concern discussions in SPS/TBTcommittees and the new good offices procedure under the SPS agreement). In addition, disputesettlementmechanisms under certain FTAs have been recently tested (e.g. Costa Rica v. El SalvadordisputeunderCAFTA;US-GuatemalalabourdisputealsounderCAFTA).DoesdisputesettlementunderFTAshavea future?Whyhas ituntilnownotoftenbeenresortedto (seeNAFTAChapter20;ASEANdispute settlement), and could this change in the future? Is there a broader trend inWTO/internationaltradelawtowardsofterorinformalinternationallawmakinganddisputesettlementmechanisms, in some ways more akin to the old GATT or what is happening in other fields ofinternationaleconomiclaw,suchasfinance?Moderator: Amy Porges, International Trade Lawyer and Advisor, Law Offices of AmeliaPorges

• KarlBrauner,DeputyDirectorGeneral,WTO

14:00–15:45



• NiallMeagher,ExecutiveDirector,ACWL• ClaudiaOrozco,Director,TradeLawAdvice• TedPosner,Partner,Weil,Gotshal&Manges• SeungWhaChang,formerAppellateBodyMember,WTO&ProfessorofLawatSeoul

NationalUniversity• TraceyEpps,InternationalTradeConsultant,ChapmanTripp,NewZealand• PabloBentes,Steptoe&Johnson,Washington


Session4.PANEL:USTradePolicyunderPresidentTrump:MattersofWTO/FTAComplianceandWhatDoesItMeanfortheRestoftheWorld?Tradeandtradepolicyplayedanimportantroleinthe2016USelectionsandfirstmonthsoftheTrumpPresidency. Several trade-related proposals have been put on the table. Rather than the generalbacklash against globalisation (to be discussed in panel 1) or new ideas on how to re-think tradeagreements (panel 3), this panel will discuss concrete proposals floated or actually enacted by theTrumpadministrationthatare likelytohaveamajor impactontrade,rangingfromUScorporatetaxreforms(whichmayormaynotincludeborderadjustments)and/orapossible35%importdutyoncarsfromMexico, to labelling China as a "currency manipulator" and pulling out off, or re-negotiating,NAFTAorTPP.ThispanelwilldiscussmattersofWTOandFTAcomplianceaswellas legalquestionsunderUSlawandbroaderimplicationsfortheWTOandworldtradingsystem.Moderator: Jennifer Hillman, Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown University, formermemberoftheWTOAppellateBody&USInternationalTradeCommission

• GrantAldonas,PrincipalandManagingDirector,SplitRockInternational• YangGuohua,ProfessorofLaw,TsinghuaUniversity• ScottLincicome,Counsel,White&Case,Washington• DanielCrosby,Partner,King&Spalding,Washington• Carlos Vejar, former General Counsel for International Trade, Mexican Ministry of

Economy

16:15–18:00



PosterSessionsDay1:

PosterTopicsrelatedtoSession1(“GlobalizationBacklash”)–fromcallforpapersjuniorscholars1. Towards a Convergence between Strong Trade Agreements andWeak Trade Policies in Sub-Saharan

Africa,AyoAribidara,LegislativeAide,NationalAssemblyComplex,Nigeria2. India’s Proposal for Trade Facilitation in Services: A Breath of Fresh Air for Global Trade, Aveek

Chakravarty,LLM,UniversityofTurin3. TheFloweringof LatinAmericanGlobalismwith thePacificAlliance Initiative,Carolina Palma, Trade

andCustomsProfessor,UniversityofCostaRicaandInternationalTradeLawyer,PachecoCoto,CostaRica

PosterTopicsrelatedtoSession2(“Brexit”)–callforpapersjuniorscholars

4. Preserving the UK’s Relationship with the African, Caribbean, and Pacific Countries: The LegalImplicationsofBrexit,ClairGammage,LecturerinLaw,UniversityofBristolLawSchool

5. TheLegalConsequencesofBrexitonInvestmentProtection:DisentanglingaComplexWebandSpinningaNewOne,MatthieuGrégoire,Barrister,4NewSquare,UK

6. Beyond Brexit: Unpacking the Reality of Uncertainty for Southern Africa, Amos Saurombe, SeniorLecturer,UniversityofSouthAfrica

PosterTopicsrelatedtoSession3(“DisputeSettlement”)–callforpapersjuniorscholars

1. FSAPPeerReviewMechanismsinInternationalFinancialLaw:ATemplateforReformofDSUoftheWTO,VeerMayank,DepartmentofLaw,SikkimUniversity,India

2. Specific Trade Concerns in Action: Geneva’s Influence on Chile’s Food Labeling Policy, PaulMertenskötter,PhDCandidate,Humbolt-UniversitatBerlin

3. Whyistheresolittlelitigationunderpreferentialtradeagreements?Retaliationandadjudicationininternationaldisputesettlement,GeraldoVidigal,VisitingFellow,GraduateInstitute,Geneva



Saturday,10thJune2017(HeldattheWTO,RuedeLausanne154)

Session5.PANEL:FreeTradeUnderAttack:IsaRadicalRethinkofTradeandInvestmentAgreementsNeeded?††Thispanel,buildingonthebroaderglobalizationbacklashroundtableofthefirstsession,willdiscusswhat the current political trend against openness and free trademeans for trade and investmentagreements: Do they need a radical rethink, or are domestic adjustment policies to blame? Theorganizers are inviting, in particular, papers that present cutting edge, new ideas on howtrade/investmentagreementscouldbeadjustedtoaddresscurrentcritiques.If,forexample,NAFTAistobere-negotiated,whatshouldaNAFTA2.0looklike?WiththeUKregainingthefreedomtosetitsowntradepolicy,whatinnovationsshould,forexample,aUK-UStradeagreementinclude?InthewakeofEuropeancriticismagainstCETA,whatchangestothecurrentCETAtextsareneeded,ifany,toalleviateconcernsin,forexample,nationalorregionalparliamentsinGermanyandBelgium?Musttrade/investment agreements bemore “evidence based” and adjustwhere they fail to reach theirobjectiveof, forexample, increasing tradeorgrowth,creating jobsorattractingFDI?Orshouldwestop calling second generation FTAs “free trade” agreements as they are about regulation andbroadereconomicdisciplinesasmuchas theyareabout (liberalizing) trade?Are tradeagreementssolely about economic growth or can they increasingly be seen as imposing a form of regulatorydiscipline,nudgingstatestoadopt“goodpolicies”,tobeimplementedinan“even-handed”mannerwhich,attimes,mayrequiremore(ratherthanless)restrictionsorflankingpolicies?Moderator:MarkusWagner,AssociateProfessorofLaw,WarwickUniversity

• The Great Asymmetry and The Rule of Law in Trade and Investment Agreements,AlessandraArcuri,AssociateProfessor,ErasmusSchoolofLaw,ErasmusUniversityRotterdam

• A Blueprint for a 21st Century NAFTA, Inu Manak & Simon Lester, GeorgetownUniversity&CATOInstitute

• SavingthePoliticalConsensusinFavourofFreeTrade,TimMeyer,ProfessorofLaw,VanderbiltUniversityLawSchool

• International Trade, Economic Exclusion and Racialized Harm: The Cotton Story,ChantalThomas,CornellUniversitySchoolofLaw

09:00–10:45


Session6.PANEL:Developments inTradeRemedies Legislation& Jurisprudence: (China)MarketEconomyStatus,AlternativeFlexibilities&TheBiggerQuestionOfHowToMarryTradeLiberalizationWithVaryingDegreesof“StateCapitalism”Attheendof2016,thequestionariseshowWTOmembers, includingtheEUandtheUS,will treatChinese imports under trade remedy legislation:Will they grant Chinamarket economy status? InwhatotherwayscancertaintypesofgovernmentinfluenceintheeconomybeaccommodatedunderWTOagreements?Howmuchflexibility is there, forexample, tousesurrogatevaluestodeterminedumping or subsidy rates? How to react to SOEs or state trading? If market economy status is

11:15–13:00

††PresentersonSession3(aswellasPosterSession3)wereselectedbytheAcademicCommitteefollowingacallforpapersopentobothjunior&seniorscholars.



granted,whatdoesthatmeanforexistingtraderemedies(legacymeasures)?WhatlightdoesrecentWTO jurisprudence on trade remedies (EU – Biodiesel, US – ADMethodologies, etc.) shed on thisbroader debate? Are more advanced or detailed responses included in FTAs, for example, byaddressing questions such as SOEs or competition policy? What to make of recently proposedreformstoEUtradedefenceinstruments?Moderator: Jan Bohanes, Senior Counsel, ACWL& Visiting Lecturer, Graduate Institute,Geneva

• ElizabethJ.Drake,Partner,Stewart&Stewart• StephenKho,Partner,Akin&Gump• DanielMoulis,PrincipalPartner,MoulisLegal• MarkWu,AssistantProfessorofLaw,HarvardUniversity(tbc)• PauletteVanderSchueren,Partner,MayerBrown,Brussels• WeihuanZhou,Lecturer,UNSWLaw,Australia‡‡

LUNCH–POSTERPRESENTATIONSSESSIONS5&6 13:00–14:00

FollowedbytheGrandFinaloftheELSAMootCourtCompetition(EMC2)onWTOLawat14:00

PosterSessionsDay2:PosterTopicsrelatedtoSession5(“FreeTradeUnderAttack”)–callforpapersjunior&seniorscholars

1. Rethinking International Trade Law in an Era of Trump and Brexit, Frank Garcia, Professor of Law,BostonCollegeofLaw

2. HowShouldWeThinkAboutWinnersandLosers?Redesigning InternationalEconomicAgreements inanEraofGlobalizationBacklash,NicolasLamp,AssistantProfessor,Queen’sUniversity,Canada

3. InternationalTradeandInternationalTaxation:ACaseStudySupportingaBrettonWoods2.0,MonicaOliveira,SJDCandidate,TaxGraduateProgram,UniversityofFlorida

4. PoliticisingTradeAdjudication,SergioPuig,AssociateProfessor,ArizonaUniversity

PosterTopicsrelatedtoSession6(“TradeRemedies”)–callforpapersjuniorscholars1. Back to the Lawless Jungle?TheVulnerabilityof EUAnti-DumpingMeasuresagainstChina,David

Kleimann,DoctoralResearcher,EuropeanUniversityInstitute,Florence2. StateCapitalism,State-OwnedBanks,andtheWTO’sSubsidyRegime,AlexYueh-PingYang&Pin-

HsienLee,SJDCandidate,HarvardLaw&LLMColumbiaLaw

‡‡‘YoungVoice’selectedbytheAcademicCommitteefollowingacallforpapersrestrictedtojuniorscholars.

Thisconferenceisgenerouslysponsoredby:

The 2017 Conference Committee TheConferenceCommitteeiscomprisedofpeoplefromthetwohostinstitutionsplusanumberofindividualsappointedbySIELtoprovideacademicguidancefortheconference.

Conference Chairs: ChristopherBrummer,ProfessorofLawandFacultyDirector,IIEL,GeorgetownLaw;Editor-in-Chief,JournalofInternationalEconomicLaw

JoostPauwelyn,ProfessorofInternationalLaw,GraduateInstituteofInternationalandDevelopmentStudies,Geneva,andVisitingProfessorofLaw,GeorgetownLaw;Editor-in-Chief,JournalofInternationalEconomicLaw

Academic Committee: FreyaBaetens,AssociateProfessorofLaw,LeidenUniversitySingapore;andMemberoftheExecutiveCouncilofSIEL

JanBohanes,SeniorCounsel,AdvisoryCentreonWTOLaw;andVisitingLecturerattheGraduateInstituteofInternationalandDevelopmentStudies,Geneva

Michael Ewing-Chow, Associate Professor of Law, National University of Singapore; and Member of theExecutiveCouncilofSIEL

JenniferHillman,ProfessorofLaw,GeorgetownUniversityLawCenter

GaryHorlick,LawOfficesofGaryN.Horlick;AdjunctProfessorofLaw,GeorgetownUniversityLawCenter

GabrielleMarceau, President of SIEL; Professeure Invitée, Faculty of Law, University of Geneva; and SeniorCounsellor,LegalAffairsDivision,WTO

AmeliaPorges,PrincipalatLawOfficesofAmeliaPorgesPLLC;andMemberoftheExecutiveCouncilofSIEL

MarkusWagner,AssociateProfessorofLaw,UniversityofWarwick;andSecretaryofSIEL

Organising Committee: Theresa Carpenter, Executive Director, Centre for Trade and Economic Integration, Graduate Institute ofInternationalandDevelopmentStudies

Manuel Sánchez,PhDLawCandidate,Graduate Instituteof InternationalandDevelopmentStudies;EditorialAssistant,JournalofInternationalEconomicLaw

ChristineWashington,Director,Programs&ExternalAffairs,IIEL,GeorgetownLaw

Angelica Zanninelli, Events Coordinator, Centre for Trade and Economic Integration, Graduate Institute ofInternationalandDevelopmentStudies

Annual Conference on WTO Law...Apr 24, 2017 · Georgetown Law and the Graduate Institute 9 & 10 June 2017 Sponsors of this conference include: • Niall Meagher, Executive Director,

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