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10th WTI Summer Academy 2012 - International Trade and Investment
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| Location: | Berne / Switzerland / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 35 days | Start Date: | July |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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Launched in 2003, the World Trade Institute’s (WTI) Summer Academy addresses the increasing demand for up-to-date knowledge of the most cutting-edge issues in international trade regulation. Professionals, government officials, international civil servants, scholars, staff from non-governmental organizations and students who cannot attend the WTI’s full year Master’s programme can benefit from a compact exposure to – and a comprehensive inside look at – many of the hottest topics in trade regulation and global governance.
The forthcoming 10th WTI Summer Academy covers many of the most important and current topics in the field of international trade. Mastering the economic impacts, legal principles, and political feasibility of trade regulation is a highly interdisciplinary challenge.
Our courses are co-taught by many of the world’s leading practitioners, drawn from the fields of economics, law and international political economy. Participants with a diverse background of professional and academic expertise learn to blend the policy aspects of trade with thorough legal interpretation and economic analysis while establishing contacts with fellow professionals and faculty from all over the world.
Participants can either attend the five-week Summer Academy as a whole or may choose individual weekly modules on a flexible, à la carte, basis -- in order to accommodate a wide range of training needs and interests.
Why participate in the WTI Summer Academy?
- Tap into our faculty's expertise: Our global faculty provides you with a comprehensive inside look at some of the hottest topics in international trade.
- Acquire skills and insights applicable in today's workplace: Our courses are designed with a strong applied focus.
- Live and study in a multicultural environment: Establish personal contacts with professionals from all over the world.
- Study in modern facilities: All courses are held on the premises of the institute, allowing students access to our IT infrastructure and extensive library.
- Discover the charm of Berne in summer: Switzerland's capital with its historic centre, surrounded by the river Aare and in close proximity to the Swiss Alps is rated as one of the cities with the highest quality of life in the world.
- Participate in extracurricular activities: Join our field trip to the WTO in Geneva, visit one of the many museums in Berne, or discover the city on a tour through its historic centre.
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Contents
Week 1: 09 – 13 July 2012: Contestable Markets: Trade, Competition and Government Procurement
This interdisciplinary course delves into the relationships between international trade, competition policy and government procurement, from both a legal and an economic point of view. The first two days will develop economic fundamentals that link all three policy areas. The last three days will examine specific areas of interface between competition policy and the WTO agreements; the WTO regime for government procurement; the relationship between competition policy and government procurement regimes; and the legal and negotiating context for carrying forward work in these areas internationally.
Lecturers:Robert Anderson, World Trade Organization, Geneva; Alberto Heimler, Italian School of Government, Rome
Week 2: 16 – 20 July 2012: Trade Remedies
This course explains EC and US anti-dumping and safeguards law and practice and how they relate to WTO law. Various subsidy regimes are analysed in relation to the WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures. It concludes with a discussion of potential outcomes of future negotiations on these issues and how the economic crisis has affected recourse to contingent protection measures.
Lecturers: Edwin Vermulst, VVGB Advocaten, Brussels; Gary Horlick, Law Offices of Gary N. Horlick, Washington, DC
Week 3: 23 – 27 July 2012: Settling Investment Disputes
This course delves into the dynamic field of investment disputes, exploring recent patterns of investor–state litigation, the nature of the substantive disciplines and actors involved, and the evolving body of jurisprudence. It also explores the scope for and practical modalities of alternative means of resolving conflict in investment relations, notably through dispute mediation.
Lecturers: Roberto Echandi, World Trade Institute, University of Bern; Anna Joubin-Bret, Foley Hoag LLP, Paris
Week 4: 30 July – 3 August 2012: Managing the Border: Trade Costs, Customs Reforms and Trade Facilitation
This course will discuss conditions for successful trade facilitation and logistics reforms – a challenging process which involves identifying and addressing bottlenecks along a supply chain. Individual countries and regional economic groups can turn to the World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index (LPI) and use the Bank’s Trade and Transport Facilitation Assessment methodology (TTFA) to benchmark their performance. Modern approaches to the reform and modernization of border management procedures and institutions will be examined. Another big contribution to trade expansion comes from radical improvements in the service delivery of global logistics companies, whose perspective will also be discussed. The course will also update participants on the latest developments in the treatment of trade facilitation disciplines in the WTO and in preferential trade agreements.
Lecturers: Alina Mustra, World Bank, Washington, DC; Gerard McLinden, World Bank, Washington, DC; Rod Franklin, Kuehne & Nagel, Zurich; Nora Neufeld, World Trade Organization, Geneva
Week 5: 6 – 10 August 2012: The Law, Economics and Politics of Preferential Trade Agreements
This course explores the recent proliferation of preferential trade agreements from a legal, economic and global political economy perspective, investigating the forces shaping the increasing recourse to PTAs in trade governance and the systemic implications deriving from such fragmentation for the WTO system. The course also introduces participants to TradeSift, the Systematic Integrated Framework for Trade Analysis developed at the University of Sussex (UK), an innovative piece of software designed to enable the economic analysis of regional trade agreements without the need for sophisticated economic modelling or specialist training in economics.
Lecturers: Pierre Sauvé, World Trade Institute, University of Bern; Manfred Elsig, World Trade Institute, University of Bern; Anirudh Shingal, World Trade Institute, University of Bern
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test if you come from a non-English speaking country.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
More informationRequirements
The Summer Academy is open to anyone who has graduated from a tertiary educational institution (bachelors degree or equivalent) or who is in the process of doing so (undergraduate students). Applicants should be able to demonstrate a solid working knowledge of English and should be prepared to read a large amount of material in English both prior to and during the Summer Academy.
The WTI is currently accepting applications for the Summer Academy. However, spaces are limited and they tend to fill up quickly. Qualified applicants will be accepted on a "first-come-first-served" basis.
Applying to the Summer Academy is easy. Download the application form from our website at and send it, together with a copy of your CV, to: summer@wti.org. There is no application fee (however, please see our cancellation policy in the section on fees). You will normally hear back from the programme coordinator within 48 hours as to whether or not you have been accepted.
All lectures are taught in English and admission to the Academy is limited to 65 participants per week.
For more information on the Summer Academy, fill in the form on your right, visit our website at www.wti.org or contact Ms Gaby Hofer.
Funding details
The fee for attending the full 5-week Summer Academy is 5'250 Swiss Francs (CHF). Applicants also have the option to attend individual weeks.
- 1 week = CHF 1’300
- 2 weeks = CHF 2’500
- 3 weeks = CHF 3’600
- 4 weeks = CHF 4’500
- 5 weeks = CHF 5'250
Payment must be made in Swiss Francs. Due to a limited number of places, payment is due upon acceptance to the programme. Please note that these fees do neither include board nor lodging. Please see our website at for more details regarding our cancellation policy, visas, health insurance, and accommodation.
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