B2429 - RE-GLOBE – INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INVESTMENT LAW

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

The course is aimed at providing the students with the basic knowledge of the multiateral trade system (the WTO system) and international investment law. The course is aimed at conferring the students the ability to recognize the interests underlying those rules and legal instruments to enforce them, especially through the dynamics of argumentation emerging from international litigation. Course contents Overview of the WTO System The dispute settlement mechanism of the WTO The most favoured nation clause The national treatment principle GATT Article XX: trade & non-trade values The WTO TBT Agreement The precautionary principle and the SPS Agreement The New Government Procurement Agreement Tha General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) The Trade-Related Intellectueal Property Rights Agreement (TRIPs) China in the WTO DSM: The cases concerning natural resources WTO & Climate Change WTO & Energy The New generation of EU Free Trade Agreements: from Singapore to Canada, from Korea to the United States Transparency & International Economic Law Concept of investment and investors Principles of non discrimination and of fair and equitable treatment Direct & indirect expropriation Interpretation and Application of Investment Treaties Investment dispute settlement mechanisms Transparency in investment arbitration proceedings Investment & sustainability issues: protection of foreign investment & environmental and human rights protection

Contenuti

Il corso di International Trade and Investment Law è finanziato dall'Unione europea come modulo Jean Monnet Re-Globe (Reforming the Global Governance: the EU for SDGs in International Economic Law). Per il programma si rinvia direttamente alla versione inglese al link https://www.unibo.it/en/teaching/course-unit-catalogue/course-unit/2022/424080, come pure al sito web dedicato Re-Globe - Reforming the Global Economic Governance: The EU for SDGs in International Economic Law (unibo.it) [https://site.unibo.it/reglobe/en], e all'account twitter https://twitter.com/ReGlobe_jm

 

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Elisa Baroncini