Pilot Clinic: University of São Paulo, Spring 2021 Beneficiary: American Chamber of Commerce for Brazil Executive Summary Read the full report here Sumário Executivo (Portuguese) The environment is shaping up to be an inescapable driver of the Brazil-US bilateral relations in the coming years. The current US administration has placed the issue at the center of its domestic and foreign policies. Brazil, for its part, holds the greatest biological diversity in the world and is

Clinic: CTIL, New Delhi/Jodhpur, Spring 2021 Beneficiary: Services Export Promotion Council (SEPC), India Executive Summary Read the full report here With the onset of globalization, multi-jurisdictional legal issues have become indispensable. However, India’s desire to liberalise and integrate into the global economy did not include liberalizing the country’s domestic legal services. This report explores the regulation of legal services in India, and identifies various appro

A Case Study of Mongolia Clinic: Graduate Institute, Fall 2020 Beneficiary: Permanent Mission of Mongolia Executive Summary Read the full report here This memorandum aims at identifying trade obstacles encountered by landlocked countries generally and Mongolia specifically, and offering legal solutions to address these problems. Apropos trade obstacles, this memorandum identifies the four clusters of obstacles experienced by landlocked states as follows: a) problems relating

Clinic: University of the West Indies, Spring 2021 Executive Summary Read the full report here. Appendix The value of the medicinal cannabis industry globally is expected to reach US $ 70.6 billion by 2028.* The increased legalisation of cannabis for medicinal use and the growing adoption of these products for the treatment of chronic diseases are the key factors driving this market.** Within the Caribbean region, the medicinal cannabis industry has generated significant econ

Clinic: Georgetown University Law Center, Spring 2021 Beneficiary: Bangladesh Trade Facilitation Project, Land O’Lakes Venture37 Executive Summary Read the full report here Trade in agricultural goods can be highly sensitive to border constraints that delay their release. Such constraints are addressed by the World Trade Organization’s Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), a multilateral agreement designed to modernize, simplify, and harmonize global trade border procedures. Al

Clinic: National University of Singapore, Spring 2021 Executive Summary of a Confidential Project This semester, the team from the National University of Singapore (“NUS”) had the opportunity of drafting a new model investment treaty for a developing country, with an accompanying commentary. This opportunity came about because many of the beneficiary's existing International Investment Agreements (“IIAs”) had been drafted in the traditional OECD style. Apart from articulating

Clinic: CTIL/National Law University, Jodhpur, Fall 2020 Executive Summary Full Report Available Here There is evidence to show that India’s FTAs with Japan, Korea, and ASEAN have not benefited the parties equally. An examination of India’s MFN tariffs and preferential tariffs on steel, as compared to those of its trading partners, indicates an asymmetry in advantages that have accrued. In light of this, it is recommended that India’s preferential tariff schedule for steel be

Clinic: Graduate Institute, Fall 2020 Executive Summary View Non-Confidential Excerpt here This memo seeks to provide assistance to a Permanent Mission to the WTO in preparation for the Working Party Meetings on a trading partner’s accession. The accession process presents the Permanent Mission with an opportunity to address its concerns with the acceding trading partner not only in terms of trade, investment and infrastructure but on any aspect that it wishes to address unde

A Legal Analysis of Fossil Fuel Subsidies under the SCM Agreement Clinic: Hebrew University, Fall 2020 Beneficiary: International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Executive Summary Full Report can be read here The global energy market is worth trillions of dollars and comprises a significant portion of international trade. This market is heavily subsidized, with an estimated $5.2 trillion spent on global fossil fuel subsidies in 2017 (IMF, 2019), by states such as

Clinic: Graduate Institute, Fall 2020 Beneficiary: Legislation and Parliamentary Research Institute (LPRI), Uzbekistan Executive Summary Full report can be read here This Memorandum is prepared to guide the Beneficiary through Uzbekistan’s accession process to the World Trade Organization (hereinafter WTO). Uzbekistan’s accession process began in December 1994 but remained dormant until July 2020. Now, the Uzbek government has expressed enthusiasm for pursuing accession to th