Thursday, January 30, 2014

Conference: Preferential Trade Agreements and World Economic Order

On March 6-8, 2014, the International Economic Law Interest Group of the European Society of International Law and the Institut für Völkerrecht und Europarecht at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen will co-host a conference on "Preferential Trade Agreements and World Economic Order," in Göttingen. The program is here. Here's the idea:
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as well as the Canadian-European Trade Agreement (CETA) are just the more prominent examples of a more general tendency to establish preferential trade agreements. Prospects, challenges and concerns of these agreements as well as their potential impact on the international economic order and on the World Trade Organization in particular will be discussed at an international conference, which is convened jointly by the interest group on international economic law of the European Society of International Law and the Institute for International Law and European Law – which organizes the event.