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18 Feb 2025 | News

The Global Economic Impact of Trump's Tariff War: Who Wins & Who Loses?

Since returning to the White House less than four weeks ago, the message from Donald Trump on trade appears to be tariffs, tariffs -- tariffs.

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14 Feb 2025 | News

Governing Migration: Analysing Regional Migration Governance and Free Movement of Persons in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

Congratulations to the World Trade Institute’s MILE 12 alumna Amanda Bisong for obtaining her PhD cum laude from Vrije University Amsterdam.

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13 Feb 2025 | News

WTI Fellow Christian Häberli chairs USMCA Panel Ruling against Mexico in GM Corn Dispute

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4 Feb 2025 | News

5th International Bachelor Summer School for Climate Change Research

Join us for the International Bachelor Summer School for Climate Change Research. This Summer School is designed for highly motivated bachelor students (semesters 4–6) who are passionate about climate change and currently enrolled in natural/climate sciences, economics, social sciences, or law takes place 4 - 15 August 2025 in Bern, …

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27 Jan 2025 | News

U.S. Trade Policy under Trump: Insights from a European Perspective

Trade policy in the United States has undergone significant transformations over the past decades, often reflecting broader shifts in global geopolitics. Prof. Dr. Manfred Elsig visited Taiwan at the end of 2024 to discuss the potential impacts of the Trump Administration’s trade policy and other emerging trends with a range …

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24 Jan 2025 | News

Global Data Flows x ‘Digital Trade Law’: Instruments, Institutions, and Infrastructures

Craig Atkinson, a WTI Non-Resident Fellow and Research Affiliate at the SMU Centre for Digital Law (CDL), outlines the structure and arguments of an upcoming white paper developed in collaboration with the University of Lucerne's Trade Law 4.0 project. The publication aims to spotlight how the principles of Data Free …

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14 Jan 2025 | News

How do people react when countries break trade rules to carry out climate policies?

A new study from Manfred Elsig and Gabriele Spilker shows that Swiss citizens support various trade-related measures to achieve climate goals. The data shows that people expect the Swiss government to be in compliance with international agreements.

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16 Dec 2024 | News

Meet Satish: WTI Alumni Stories

Meet Triplicane Damodaran (TD) Satish. Satish is a trade lawyer, and practicing trade remedy and customs law in India for over a decade before coming to the World Trade Institute. Having gained practical experience in WTO laws, Satish always wanted to do go back to school and learn the theoretical …

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13 Dec 2024 | News

Insights on Sustainable Agricultural Trade

Wrapping Up 3.5 Years of the MATS Project

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2 Dec 2024 | News

The Concept Design of a Twenty-First Century Preferential Trade Agreement

The Concept Design of a 21st Century Preferential Trade Agreement describes the current status and possible future evolution of trade agreements. The individual contributions provide fine-grained analyses of the various challenges trade agreements face and how these differ across countries. The book brings together leading researchers from international law and …

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18 Nov 2024 | News

Meet Gauri: WTI Alumni Stories

Gauri Tyagi practiced as a commercial lawyer in India for almost 5 years, primarily focusing on admiralty and customs law — fields that intersect with trade. She observed how closely these areas are tied to the movement of goods, economic relations, and regulatory frameworks. Then during the COVID pandemic, Gauri …

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1 Nov 2024 | Event

Understanding Third-Party Funding in International Commercial Arbitration

Arbitration and commercial litigation funding plays an increasingly important role in an interdependent justice system, with forthcoming caselaw paving the way for the growth of funding availability for meritorious ESG-aligned cases. We sit down with Lucas Macedo, a Senior Investment Manager at Nivalion. Macedo believes that funders play a critical …

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24 Oct 2024 | News

WTI attends Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Launch of CEDAW’s General Recommendation No. 40 on the Equal and inclusive representation of women in decision-making systems

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22 Oct 2024 | News

Navigating Global Trading Systems: The Challenges & opportunities of Small Developing Economies

We were honored to hear from Ambassador Dr. Athaliah Molokomme, the Permanent Representative of Botswana to the UN

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30 Sep 2024 | News

Meet Francisco: WTI Alumni Stories

Francisco Montoya, a lawyer from Peru with a background in financial law, joined the World Trade Institute as a part of class MILE24. Learn a more about Francisco, and what motivated him to study at WTI.

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20 Sep 2024 | News

Fostering education opportunities in international trade and economic law

IKMAS, the National University of Malaysia partners with WTI

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17 Sep 2024 | News

Trade for Sustainable Development Forum 2024

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9 Sep 2024 | News

Looking forward to the semester start!

We're looking forward to welcoming MILE25 and TRAIL+8 class!

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3 Sep 2024 | News

World Trade Institute at the WTO's Public Forum

Re-globalization: Better Trade for a Better World, Taking place in Geneva from the 10-13 September

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10 Jul 2024 | News

WTI and NALSAR University of Law sign MoU

The WTI is very pleased about this new partnership and is looking forward to a mutually beneficial cooperation.

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