Course Information
GBUS 4970
Eligibility:
Juniors and Seniors.
While there is no prerequisite, preference will be given to those taking Professor Busch’s International Trade Policy and Law course.
Dates:
Spring Semester
Description:
Each year, 10 students are selected to work on a would-be WTO dispute for the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). The would-be dispute is real, is likely to have been raised by the United States before a committee at the WTO, and concerns a trade regulation stemming from a foreign government’s regulation.
The course is split into three sections: (1) the relevant WTO legal texts; (2) pertinent WTO case law; and (3) articulating a legal strategy. Students are graded as a team, with the final presentation being the only deliverable. The course ends with a presentation and Q&A before senior staffers at USTR.
Professor Information
Marc Busch is the Karl F. Landegger Professor of International Business Diplomacy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is an expert on international trade policy and law. He has addressed a wide range of governments and international institutions, including the Advisory Centre on WTO Law, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the World Bank and the United Nations. He has testified before the US International Trade Commission on the TRIPS Waiver at the WTO, before the US Congress on Airbus-Boeing litigation, before the Canadian Senate on softwood lumber litigation, and before a NAFTA 2022 panel on best practices in dispute settlement.
Travel Details
This course takes place in Washington, D.C.