Centre for Trade and Economic Integration

The Permanent Mission of India to the WTO, Geneva (PMI), the Centre for Trade and Economic Integration at The Graduate Institute, Geneva (CTEI), and the Centre for Trade and Investment Law at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi (CTIL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with a view to collaborating and cooperating in the field of international trade and investment law for academic, research, training, and capacity-building activities. The MOU was signed by H.E. Ambassador Brajendra Navnit from PMI, Professor Joost Pauwelyn from CTEI and Professor James J. Nedumpara from CTIL on 27 November 2021 in Geneva, Switzerland.

The MOU broadly covers five areas of cooperation between the Parties, which include:

1. Training and capacity building;
2. Joint research projects, conferences and workshops;
3. Submission of India-focused projects for examination at TradeLab legal clinics functioning at CTEI in Switzerland or CTIL in India;
4. Internship for selected CTEI students with CTIL; and
5. Exchange of staff and faculty for study and research purposes

Management and coordination: 

• PMI: Mr. Ashish Chandorkar, Counsellor (NAMA), PMI (nama-indiawto@nic.in)
• CTEI: Ms. Tamara Pironnet, Managing Director, CTEI (tamara.pironnet@graduateinstitute.ch)
• CTIL: Mr. Satwik Shekhar, Consultant (Legal), CTIL (satwik@iift.edu/ ctiloffice@iift.edu)

For more detailed information, please click here. 

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Law Clinics to make Global Economic Regulation work for everyone

TradeLab is a global network of legal clinics, initiated at the Graduate Institute by Professor Joost Pauwelyn in 2009,  with  sites located across the globe. It aims to empower countries and smaller stakeholders to reap the full development benefits of global trade and investment rules by supporting them to answer important trade related questions through pro bono legal clinics and practica. These legal clinics and practica are implemented by law students, with support from academics and legal practitioners. 

CTEI hosts the Geneva based Law clinics, part of Trade Lab.

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GIELS provide an opportunity to PhD candidates and other junior researchers working in the field of international economic law (IEL) to present and get feedback on their work.

The target audience of GIELS is other students as well as faculty in the field (including from disciplines other than law) and interested people in the practice of IEL (IOs, law firms, NGOs, diplomatic missions). 

GIELS want to provide a small, informal and friendly setting where new IEL research can be tested and cross-topic, interdisciplinary links and networks can be forged so as to help Graduate Institute students and confirm the place of the Graduate Institute's Centre for Trade and Economic Integration (CTEI) as a leading research hub on IEL.