About WTO20 with NLU Delhi in National Law University, Delhi, Delhi

The Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO), together with National Law University, Delhi invite you to the WTO@20 Conference in New Delhi to mark the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the WTO, on 16th -18th February 2017.

Five highly successful conferences as part of the WTO@20 series have already been held at Florence (Italy), Seoul (South Korea), Beijing (China), Cancun (Mexico), and Cambridge (USA). The Conference in New Delhi (India) will be the final event of the series.

Coming at a time when the world has witnessed significant developments in the areas of global cooperation and economic relations, the Conference will reflect on the current state and the future prospects of the multilateral trade regime, in general, and its legal disciplines, in particular.

Over the course of three days, the WTO@20 Conference in New Delhi will bring together leading practitioners, adjudicators, business leaders, policymakers, diplomats, and academics working in the field of international trade and law.

The Conference will feature a keynote speech by Mr Arvind Subramanian, the Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India, on India's role and interests in the multilateral trade regime. The keynote will be followed by a roundtable discussion titled "The New Global Politics: Is There Space for Trade Multilateralism?"

The Conference sessions will develop on six main themes:


✔the WTO and trade in services;
✔the evolution of, and challenges posed by, trade remedy disputes at the WTO;
✔addressing non-trade concerns at the WTO;
✔the role of the WTO in international intellectual property governance;
✔the WTO dispute settlement system and other areas of global governance; and
✔developing countries' participation in WTO dispute settlement.

Register yourself at http://ciipc.org/wto20 by 4th February, 2017.

Please note that the Roundtable Conference on 16th February, 2017 is an invite-only event whereas the panel discussions on 17th and 18th of February, to be held at National Law University, Delhi are free and open to all.