AUWCL's International Trade and IP Summer Program Host Student, Alumni Reception in Geneva
June 19, 2019
On Thursday, June 13, Professor Padideh Ala’i, director of International and Comparative Legal Studies, and Professor Sean Flynn, associate director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, hosted a reception at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, Switzerland as part of American University Washington College of Law’s Geneva International Trade and IP Summer Program.
The two-week course—International Rule Making and Dispute Settlement - WTO, WIPO and the Multilateral System— focuses on the WTO and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, and offers students an in-depth look at international issues in IP and trade.
Part of the course focuses on the ways the WTO provides an overview of the substantive areas of international economic relations that are covered in the text of the WTO Agreements and look at the workings of the different WTO divisions, while the unit on Intellectual Property in the Multilateral System includes comparative study of international treaties on intellectual property.
Students took a break from their work inside WIPO and the WTO conducting simulations, participating in lectures and discussions, and learning about current issues impacting lawyers in international organizations to attend the reception. AUWCL alumni and friends working at the WTO, WIPO, and in private practice in Geneva also attended the event.