The
module deals with the regulation of international trade at the international
level and is structured in three units focusing on the three key areas on
international economic law:
Unit I: International Trade Law
- The GATT and WTO legal framework of international trade in goods and
services;
- Trade barriers and beyond-the-border measures and their regulation in the
GATT/WTO;
- The exceptions to the obligations under the GATT;
- The WTO “covered agreements” with particular focus on the agreements on anti-dumping, subsidies, safeguards;
- The evolution of the dispute settlement system in the GATT/WTO;
- National security within the trading system;
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Economic integration and its regulation in the GATT; preferential trade
agreements;
- Analysis of the crisis of the multilateral trading system.
Unit II: International Investment Law
- Scope and rationale of investment law. History and evolution;
- Investment and investor: definitions and case studies; main standards of
protection;
- The expropriation of foreign investment;
- Non-economic concerns in investment law and the right to regulate;
- Investor-State dispute settlement and its reform.
Unit III: International Financial Law
- The International Monetary Fund: objectives, organization, and functions;
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Sovereign debt;
- The World Bank and other international financial institutions.
- Docente titolare: Luca Rubini