Beneficiary: Trade Law Bureau, Government of Canada Clinic: uOttawa-Queen's Joint Clinic, 2018-2019 Project: Whether Multilateral Investment Court Awards Could Be Enforced Using the ICSID Convention, the New York Convention and/or an Alternative Method (Read project here) ​ "It is always interesting to engage and explore investment law issues with students. It has been enjoyable process to see how our discussions have led to the evolution of the student's consideration of cer

Beneficiary: East African Community Clinic: uOttawa-Queen's Joint Clinic, 2018-2019 Project: TradeBarriers.Org: Facilitating Trade Through Information on Non-Tariff Barriers (Read project here) “The Queen's University team has made a commendable contribution to the East African Community, the Tripartite Member/Partner States and indeed the Continent at large by improving the web based Tripartite NTBs reporting and monitoring mechanism thus making it more efficient and effecti

Beneficiary: Confidential Clinic: uOttawa-Queen's Joint Clinic, 2018-2019 Project: Confidential “The TradeLab clinic provides a good opportunity for students to apply their learning in a practical context. This builds problem solving and communication skills and also encourages students as they play a part in providing solutions to real challenges. We enjoyed our engagement with the students and supervisors and the project output was useful." #BeneficiaryTestimonial #uOttawaQ

Beneficiary: Confidential Clinic: Graduate Institute, 2018-2019 Project: Advising Country on the Terms of its Model Bilateral Investment Treaty “The students' team did an outstanding job, comparable to that of the best law firms. The in-depth analysis they conducted along with their concrete recommendations will be very valuable for our work. For this reason I would highly recommend those interested in trade and investment issues to work with TradeLab.” #BeneficiaryTestimonia

Beneficiary: OXFAM International Clinic: Graduate Institute Clinic, 2009-2010 Project: The WTO Consistency of the Buy American Provision and Auto Bailouts; The MFN Provision Contained in the CARIFORUM-EC Economic Partnership Agreement and its consistency with WTO Law; Seizure of Indian Generic Drug Shipment by Dutch Authorities "Oxfam appreciates the opportunity for well thought, structured and brilliant legal opinions on critical issues that continue to remain the focus of o

Beneficiary: Centre for International Environmental Law Clinic: Graduate Institute Clinic, 2009-2010 Project: National Incentive Measures to Protect Biodiversity and Compliance with the WTO Agreements (Read here) "The Trade Law Clinic provided a strong, enthusiastic team, who provided strong analysis in a very collaborative fashion with us. The result was a strong piece of work, and the generation of new ideas that we would not have raised ourselves, producing real added valu

Beneficiary: Confidential Clinic: Graduate Institute Clinic, 2015-2016 Project: Examination of Country X's Energy Sector Regulations for Future Regional Economic Integration (Confidential) "The cooperation with the CLINIC-CTEI was fruitful and valuable. The joint-research greatly assisted us to identify legal issues and develop effective responses within a short period of time. The quality of work and professional attitude of students are truly impressive.” #BeneficiaryTestim

Beneficiary: International Trade Clinic: Georgetown Law Clinic, 2014-2015 Project: Services Trade under the East African Community Common Market Protocol (Read here) “The Trade Law Practicum was a valuable and rewarding exercise. It enabled us to undertake detailed research on issues which are important to our beneficiaries and the legal analysis of the students was rigorous and high-quality.” -Ben Czapnik (Former) Adviser , International Trade Center (Current) Trade Policy A

Beneficiary: Permanent Delegation of the African Union to the UN & WTO, AU Coordinator & Representative of Rwanda to the WTO Clinic: Graduate Institute Clinic, 2017-2018 Project: What Holds African LDC Exports Back? Translating Global Trade Alert Data Into A Positive Trade Agenda For Africa (Read here) “With this brief note, I wish to share my experience in collaborating with TradeLab. The collaboration was initiated when Rwanda was coordinator of the African Group in the lea

Beneficiary: International Trade Center Clinic: uOttawa-Queen’s Joint Clinic, 2017-2018 Projects: Trade and Gender; Trade and Gender in Public Procurement (Read here) “TradeLab has been useful to us in the International Trade Center.in our work on women’s economic empowerment. At the WTO Ministerial Conference in December 2017, more than 120 members signed the Buenos Aires Declaration on Women and Trade committing to act to improve the participation of women in internationa