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Zoom (Singapore Time)
Start
29 April 2024 (Monday)
End
6 June 2024 (Thursday)
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Academy of International Trade 2024

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No Registration Fee Required for this Course | All sessions are held in Zoom | Singapore Time | Time Converter

It is in the arena of world trade that the most important conflicts and battles, or cooperation and progress, take place and in which both overall prosperity and even pacific relations of our interdependent global society will be determined. The GATT/WTO constitutes the essential framework, the ‘Higher Law’ or even the ‘Economic Constitution’ of our international legal order.

In this CIL-NUS Academy of International Trade, the fundamental building blocks of the international economic legal order will be highlighted, paying special attention to contemporary geopolitical pressures.

Spanning 32 classroom hours over 4 weeks (equivalent to a full module at leading law schools), this Academy taught by internationally-recognized trade law scholars is designed to achieve simultaneously 2 goals.

General Course

The 8 lessons give an overview of the system with a sharp outlining of its underlying legal principles. This is suitable for those wishing for an introduction to or refresher on the fundamentals of trade law.

  1. History of Trade Integration, and GATT-Think
  2. Quantitative Restrictions
  3. Tariffs
  4. National Treatment
  5. Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT)
  6. Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures
  7. Contingent Protection
  8. The WTO Today

Specialization Courses

The 4 specialist modules (2 lessons per week over 4 weeks) spotlight critical topics on (1) WTO dispute settlement, (2) megaregional agreements and digital trade, (3) trade, environment, and sustainability, and (4) regional trade agreements. This is suitable for those who already possess trade law knowledge and want an insight into contemporary issues.

Registrants may sign up for as many specializations as they wish.

Who should apply?

Four types of audience are envisaged:

  1. Those for whom international trade law is a principal professional occupation. We are confident that even this group will gain insight. There are always new ways to know that which we know.
  2. Those whose professional legal activity is different but intersects with international trade law and may wish to have a better understanding of such intersection.
  3. Those who may not even be lawyers, e.g. civil servants in trade policy areas, economic operators whose business activity are impacted by the international trading system and who, too, want to understand the fundamental legal principles of the system.
  4. University students, doctoral candidates, and postdoctoral scholars are also very welcome.

Certificate of Attendance

Participants who attend at least 80% of lessons will receive this recognition.

Examination Award

Those wishing may sit an exam following the final lesson. If successfully passed, candidates will receive an Award issued by CIL-NUS. Two exam formats are offered:

  1. The Foundational Exam requires answering 1 General Course Question and 1 Specialization Question.
  2. The Advanced Exam requires answering 2 Specialization Questions.

Academy Faculty

  1. Joseph Weiler - New York University School of Law (Convenor and General Course Examiner)
  2. Petros Mavroidis - Columbia Law School (General Course Professor)
  3. Michelle Zang - Victoria University of Wellington (Specialization Professor)
  4. Thomas Streinz - New York University School of Law (Specialization Professor)
  5. Johanna Jacobsson - IE Law School (Specialization Professor)

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