Student: Megan Quek Clinic: Graduate Institute Clinic, 2010-2011 Project: Treatment and Monitoring of the EU and USA Emissions Trading Systems Under the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures of the WTO (Read here) Beneficiary: Japanese Mission to the WTO “I have such fond memories of my time at IHEID! It has been awhile but one thing that stands out about the Trade Law Clinic was the hands-on approach. We were able to delve into a specific topic and run with it

Student: Ilias Pnevmonidis Clinic: Graduate Institute Clinic, 2010-2011 Project: Treatment and Monitoring of the EU and USA Emissions Trading Systems Under the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures of the WTO (Read here) Beneficiary: Japanese Mission to the WTO “For me it was probably the most interesting class I followed during my 2 years as a Masters student of the Graduate Institute and I felt grateful that Prof. Pauwelyn had chosen me to participate at the cl

Student: Jamie Arabi Clinic: uOttawa-Queen’s Joint Clinic, 2017-2018 Project: Evaluating (In)Consistency in Investor-State Arbitration: A Roadmap (Read here) Beneficiary: Global Affairs Canada “I was a member of a foreign direct investment team handling an investor-state arbitration assignment. To our team’s knowledge, no article had studied such a wide variety of clauses under one publication. Not only did this assignment test our abilities as law students, but it provided t

Student: Hamid Gholizadeh Nojehdeh Clinic: Graduate Institute Clinic, 2017-2018 Project: Fisheries Subsidies: Buenos Aires & Beyond (Read here) Beneficiary: Confidential “For me it was a very unique experience. As an Iranian student I found Trade Lab a great opportunity to get involved in international trade, especially with the WTO related projects since my country is not a member state yet. You have to develop your academic knowledge and learn how to actually use it in the

Student: Manu Sanan Clinic: Graduate Institute Clinic, 2014-2015 Project: The consistency of capital flow regulation under the US Model BIT, 2012 vis à vis the IMF and the WTO (Confidential) Beneficiary: Confidential “I participated in the trade law clinic in 2014, as student at the MIDS Geneva, and was quickly drawn into a most stimulating study of capital flow measures across various international legal frameworks (the WTO, the IMF and investment treaties). While fulfillin

Student: Adithi Prasanna Koushik Clinic: Graduate Institute Clinic, 2017-2018 Project: Confidential Beneficiary: Confidential “The supervisors took the time and effort to match students with projects of their interest and try to involve students with relevant experience with the project. Team work: I was fortunate to have a wonderful team, one of my teammates had a few years of work experience at a law firm and a masters from Geneva Academy around 5 years ago. The other two o

Student: Hsien Wu Clinic: Graduate Institute Clinic, 2013-2014 Project: Land Expropriation: General International Law and Potential WTO Complaint (Confidential) Beneficiary: Confidential “I participated in the Graduate Institute Clinic in the Autumn Semester of the 2013 Academic Year when pursuing a Master degree, working with two colleagues on a legal research paper on international law issues related to land expropriation (the report is fully confidential). Participation in

Student: Victor Crochet Clinic: Georgetown University Law Clinic, 2015-2016 Project: Continental Free Trade Area: Dispute Settlement Mechanism (Read here) Beneficiary: African Union “During the clinic, I worked hand in hand with students from Trapca to assist the African Union in drafting the dispute settlement chapter of the Continental Free Trade Area. The CFTA was signed in early 2018 and took up part of our recommendations. While our recommendations had been quite ambitio

Student: Irina Chicu Clinic: Graduate Institute Clinic, 2016-2017 Project: Defining and Defending Country X’s Interests in WTO and Plurilateral Negotiations on Fisheries Subsidies (Read here) Beneficiary: Confidential “I took part in the International Economic Law Clinic of the Graduate Institute Geneva in the Autumn of 2016. Being an International Law master student, I saw this project as a rare and exciting opportunity to broaden my knowledge and acquire experience in this

Student: Vandana Gyanchandani Clinic: Graduate Institute Clinic, 2016-2017 Project: UNFCCC Nationally Determined Contributions: Climate Change and Trade (Read here) Beneficiary: UNCTAD “TradeLab is an innovative platform for policy-makers, small businesses, NGOs, international organizations and various stakeholders to benefit from a network of international economic law (IEL) expertise equipped with trustworthy research capability - ‘free of cost’. The platform connects – exp