15 Apr 2025

Brown Bag Seminar

The law of international transfer of technology: conceptualising and comparing legal arrangements in international economic agreements

Technology inequality between countries is growing. Access to technology is essential to enable countries not only to respond to global challenges and crises, but also to set up a path for them to …

9 Apr 2025

Brown Bag Seminar

From Economic Growth to Sustainability, with Ambassador Benjamin Rothen

From the History of the System of National Accounts (SNA) to Global Efforts for Sustainable Development and Swiss Initiatives

8 Apr 2025

Brown Bag Seminar

My House, My Rules: Birth Regions and the Placement of Chinese Infrastructure Projects in Protected Areas

Existing research highlights that Chinese foreign aid is often vulnerable to elite capture in recipient countries. This study examines whether elite capture negatively impacts environmental protection.

25 Mar 2025

Brown Bag Seminar

US and EU Unilateral Trade Measures on Forced Labor in Global Supply Chains: Contexts, Mechanisms, and Challenges

The United States (the US) and the European Union (the EU) have recently adopted new legal instruments which introduce trade restrictive measures on goods produced wholly or in part with forced labor: the …

19 Mar 2025

Brown Bag Seminar

Shaping Trade Stability: WTO Rulings on Export Restrictions and Business Confidence in Supply Chains

An effective international legal system resolves disputes and deters violations. Once the strongest area of international law, the WTO has been weakened by internal conflicts, trade wars, and supply chain disruptions.

10 Dec 2024

Brown Bag Seminar

Innovation on the peripheries of the trade regime: insights from PTA side letters

12 Nov 2024

Brown Bag Seminar

US versus Them? Reciprocal Benefits and Public Support for International Law

What explains public opinion toward international law? Research suggests that citizens respond strongly to negative cues. Yet, most studies do not incorporate information about the benefits. We theorize that cues about the reciprocity …

7 Nov 2024

Brown Bag Seminar

World Trade, Child Labour and Transnational Constitutionalism - The Case for a New Legal Humanism

The main query this work seek to answer is whether the current structure of the global legal order is still adequate to solve global problems such as child labour? Taking the case of …

31 Oct 2024

Brown Bag Seminar

Shared Understandings and Legitimacy: Ingredients to the Evolution of Border Carbon Adjustment Compliance

How do the evolution of norm legality and legitimacy influence each other? This research builds on literature on norm contestation and legitimacy to understand their influence on norm evolution. We combine this literature …

24 Oct 2024

Brown Bag Seminar

Third-Party Funding in the Era of Arbitration Reform and ESG: What Lies Ahead?

This article examines the role of third-party funders in arbitration, a now well-known stakeholder in international dispute resolution. It discusses how funding addresses concerns regarding the legitimacy of arbitration and access to justice …

15 Oct 2024

Brown Bag Seminar

Navigating the AI Frontier in International Trade Law: The Role of the WTO's TBT Agreement

Milena da Fonseca Azevedo is a Visiting Researcher at the World Trade Institute (WTI) of the University of Bern in Switzerland. She is a PhD candidate in law at the University of Sao …

10 Oct 2024

Brown Bag Seminar

Renminbi Rising? Exporters' Response to China's Currency Internationalization

This paper investigates the heterogeneous responses of exporters to policy reforms undertaken by the People’s Bank of China to internationalize the Renminbi (RMB). Using detailed customs data from France for the initial years …

26 Sep 2024

Brown Bag Seminar

The CBAM Regulation and the US BCA proposals – between the GATT non-discrimination obligations and the CBDR-RC principle

Ms. Rachele Magnaghi is a doctoral candidate in international law at the University of Milan, Italy. Ms. Magnaghi’s research interests include analyzing unilateral trade measures in the context of climate change mitigation strategies, …

16 May 2024

Brown Bag Seminar

Brown Bag Seminar with Miriam Manchin, Politecnico di Milano

Miriam Manchin, Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano, will join us at the WTI for the last Brown Bag Seminar of this semester.

3 May 2024

Brown Bag Seminar

Brown Bag Seminar with Yuan Zi, Geneva Graduate Institute

Yuan Zi, Assistant Professor of Economics at the Graduate Institute of Geneva, research affiliate of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) and a research associate at the University of Oslo, will …

25 Apr 2024

Brown Bag Seminar

Brown Bag Seminar with Christian Winkler, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva

Christian Winkler, PhD candidate in International Relations and Economics (Minor) at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, will join us at the WTI. Title of his talk: "Tailored …

22 Apr 2024

Brown Bag Seminar

Brown Bag Seminar with Niels Lachmann, University of Southern Denmark

Niels Lachmann, PhD fellow at the SDU-University of Southern Denmark and Visiting Research Fellow at the WTI, will present on "International trade law and international investment law: avenues for addressing cross-border data flows?"

18 Apr 2024

Brown Bag Seminar

Brown Bag Seminar with Marc Copelovitch, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Marc Copelovitch, Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will join the WTI for the upcoming Brown Bag. …

14 Mar 2024

Brown Bag Seminar

Brown Bag Seminar with Krzysztof Pelc, Oxford University

Krzysztof Pelc, Lester B. Pearson Professor in International Relations at Oxford University, joins us at the WTI for the first Brown Bag of 2024. Topic of his talk:

12 Dec 2023

Brown Bag Seminar

Brown Bag Seminar: "Navigating Protectionism: Unpacking the role of strategic sectors and bilateral dependencies”

Alessia Invernizzi, from the University of Konstanz (Germany), joins us at the WTI for the final Brown Bag of 2023.