Learning outcomes

The course will focus on general issues including: Multilateralism, sectorial approach and regionalism in the governance of the world economy; From GATT 1947 to the WTO: the Uruguay Round Results. The WTO institutional framework; The Dispute Settlement System; Basic issues under GATT 1994; non discrimination and MFN treatment; Dumping, Subsidies, Safeguards; The WTO and the protec-tion of non-trade interests: exceptions, environment, human rights; The challenge of economic re-gionalism to the multilateral system; European law and the WTO; What protection for private parties; Treatment of investment.
The course is taught in English and will benefit from the participation of Dott. Geraldo Vigidal, Visiting Fellow at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies of Geneva (Switzerland), with academic and professional expertise in WTO dispute settlement. The teaching method combines lectures, case studies and group discussion.