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DISSETTLE

   

 
Training Event and First Workshop 
An academic workshop

Friday, 18th and Saturday, 19th November, 2011 

Venue
Auditorium Jacques Freymond (AJF),
132, Rue de Lausanne,
Geneva, Switzerland

Friday, 18th from 9:00 to 18:30, 1st floor
Saturday, 19th from 9:30 to 17:30, Ground Floor

Organised by
Centre for Trade and Economic Integration (CTEI) at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. 

Registration: By invitation. If you would like to receiving an invitation to attend this workshop, please register your interest.
 
 
Programme
 
DISSETTLE background
 

The DISSETTLE network will carry out research on how to make better use of economics and empirical data in the drafting, interpretation and implementation of international trade and investment agreements.

The research framework sets the limits within which DISSETTLE research proposals must fall; and provides ideas to DISSETTLE participants and prospective fellows as to possible research topics and how those could be tackled.

The framework is based on three axes

 1.  The four substantive fields identified below (trade; investment; related substantive fields; cross-cutting conceptual issues)
  • Trade dispute settlement (at the WTO or under preferential trade agreements)
  • Investment dispute settlement (investor-state arbitration; commercial arbitration)
  • Related substantive areas where lessons can be learnt on how to use economics in legal analysis (competition law; possibly national courts and their use of economics)
  • Cross-cutting conceptual analysis of law versus economics methods of communication, methodologies, epistemology, assumptions, possible “best practices”to enhance cooperation, evaluation of evidence by lawyers v. economists, how to make economic modelling more useful to solve legal questions

 2.  The three methods of using economics in legal analysis
  • theory;
  • empirical;
  • economics of law

 3. The five work packages listed in the original DISSETTLE proposal
  • Work Package 1: Arbitration (focal point: Bocconi)
  • Work Package 2: Subsidies (focal point: St Gallen)
  • Work Package 3: Competitiveness and non-discrimination (focal point: Warsaw)
  • Work Package 4: Lessons from Other Fields such as Competition Law (focal point: ULB)
  • Work Package 5: Unexplored applications (focal point: Graduate Institute Geneva)