Digital Trade and the World Trading Syst

This seminar focuses on a specific trade issue, and has a different substantive content each year. The purpose of the seminar is to provide a comprehensive discussion of a particular topic that comes under the aegis of the WTO (World Trade Organization) mandate. Following an introduction by Profs. Janow and Mavroidis, well-known experts in the field of international trade (economists, lawyers and political scientists from both academia and international organizations) will present papers that will be discussed in class. In past editions, we have dealt with preferential agreements and the problems they raise for WTO, concerns of developing countries, the challenges posed by Chinese state owned enterprises etc. The seminar is open to students of both CLS, and SIPA. Students are required to write a comprehensive paper by the end of the semester on a topic that has been discussed during the semester, and has been agreed with the two professors.