Programme

Monday 18 July

Tuesday 19 July

9.00 -10.40 am

Overview and History of the WTO Legal System

Donald Johnson, Georgia Law School & former USTR Ambassador

9.00 - 10.40 am

Overview of the WTO Dispute Settlement, Monitoring and Enforcement System

Gabrielle Marceau, Counsellor, Legal Affairs, WTO

11.00 - 12.40 am

Review of the WTO Obligations and Commitments

Joost Pauwelyn, the Graduate Institute

11.00 - 12.40 am

Litigation in the WTO: a Practitioner's Perspective

Scott Anderson, Sidley & Austin

Steve Orava, King & Spalding

Niall Meagher, Advisory Centre on WTO Law

2.30 - 4.00 pm

Visit to the US Mission in Geneva

Presentation by US Ambassador Punke

2.30 - 4.00 pm

Visit to the WTO

Presentations by Rufus Yerxa, WTO Deputy Director General

5.00 - 7.00 pm

Opening Reception at King & Spalding

with Geneva Trade Bar

Wednesday 20 July 

Thursday 21 July

9.00 - 10.40 am

Overview of Trade Defence Instruments under the WTO: Anti-Dumping, Subsidies and Safeguards

Jasper Wauters & Jorge Miranda, King & Spalding

9.00 - 11.00 am

WTO Negotiations: Concluding the Doha Round and Beyond

11.00 - 12.40 am

Recent Case Law & Hot Topics in WTO Jurisprudence

Brendan McGivern, White & Case

Sybilla Fries, Sidley & Austin

2.30 - 4.00 pm

Visit to WIPO

Presentations by

Francis Gurry, WIPO Director General 

Edward Kwakwa, Head WIPO Legal Service

7.00 pm

Closing Dinner (upon registration)