WTO Seminar, 8-9 May 2009

Room S1, 132 rue de Lausanne
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Programme

May 8, 2009 (room S1 ground floor Villa Barton)

08:00 – 09:45 Students’ preparation time

09:45 – 10:15: Welcome coffee

10:15 - 10:25: Introductory words, Prof. Cédric Dupont, Graduate Institute (HEID)
 

10:25 - 11:00: Greening the WTO? Free Trade in Biotech Products vs Environmental and Health Concerns, Michael Jelenic (HEID), Anne-Claire Marangoni (College of Europe) and Benedikt Pirker (College of Europe)

11:00 - 12:15: Trade and Climate Change. Guest Speaker: Patrick Low, Head of Economic Research and Statistics Division, WTO and Adjunct Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

12:15 - 12:50: WTO and Environment: Border Tax Adjustments, Raphaël Cottin (Sciences Po), Pascale Meier (St-Gallen), Sébastien Thomas (CoE), and Zacharias Ziegelhöfer (HEID)
 

13:00 - 14:10: lunch (HEID cafeteria)
 

14:15 - 14:50: Legal, Institutional and Procedural Limits of Retaliation under the WTO Dispute Settlement System: Is the System Adequate to deal with the Global Financial Crisis?, Miguel Burnier (HEID) and Denis Golubev (Saint-Petersburg)

14:50 - 15:25: WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism: An instrument increasingly used to pursue strategic interests that go beyond the bilateral settlement of trade disputes? Case studies of India and Brazil, Iris Koberg (HEID), Jens Philipp Anton Lamprecht (St-Gallen), and Nathalie Picarelli (Sciences Po).

15:25 - 16:00 The EU-US Trade Dispute on Geographical Indications: Two scorpions in a bottle? Johann Robert Basedow (St-Gallen) and Davide Bonvicini (CoE)
 

16:00 - 16:30: coffee break
 

16:30 - 17:05: Domino or Chess? Explaining the proliferation of PTAs in East Asia, Pauline Musset (Sciences Po), Sabria Regragui (HEID) and Timo Walter (HEID)

17:05 - 17:40: EPA: Cariforum Negotiation Strategy and Successes, Yasmine Fage (Sciences Po), Konstantin Meier (St-Gallen) and Maximilian Schellmann (St-Gallen)

17:35 - 18:15: Conciliating Trade Liberalization in agriculture and food security, Erick Alvarado (St-Gallen) and Sigrid Brettel (CoE)

19:30: Dinner (Restaurant Portobello Hotel Epsom; find location on http://www.manotel.com/en/epsom/index.php)

May 9, 2009 (room S1 ground floor Villa Barton)
 

9:30 - 10:05: NAFTA: is it a model for development?Nicolas Berghmans (Sciences Po), Borja
Edo (Sciences Po) and Renato Giacon (Sciences Po).

10:05 – 10:40: Agriculture: Economic and Systemic Aspects of the Cotton Dispute, Philippe
Fauchet (Sciences Po), Monica Chamez Lemos (Sciences Po) and Johannes Rühl
(HEID).

10:40 - 11:10: coffee break

11:10 – 11:45: Reanimating the Doha Round: How to make progress in negotiations about
environmental goods and services, Annie Haakenstad (HEID) and Daniel
Stumpf (St-Gallen)

11:45 – 12:20: The Impact of the crisis on the WTO, Adina Crisan (CoE), Konstantin Golubev
(St-Petersburg) and Alexey Gorlinsky (St-Petersburg).

12:20 – 12:55: The World Economic Crisis and the Doha Round, Evgeny Golovinov (St-
Petersburg) and Andreas Studer (St-Gallen).

13:00 – 14:00: Closing luncheon