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Wednesday 26 February 18:00 - 20:00
The Large Pension Room
The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn
8 South Square
London
WC1R 5ET
Registration
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Can the Rules-Based Trading System be Saved? --Pulling Back from the Brink
Business & Professional
A CTLS Lecture in Transnational Justice by Professor Jennifer Hillman.
Can the Rules-Based Trading System be Saved? --Pulling Back from the Brink
by Professor Jennifer Hillman
Jennifer Hillman is a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, a co-director of Georgetown’s Institute of International Economic Law and a co-founder of its Center on Inclusive Trade and Development. She is also a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her work has focused on the rules-based trading system and its implications for everything from climate change to Brexit, to China’s Belt and Road Initiative, to critically needed reforms at the World Trade Organization (WTO). She previously served on the WTO's Appellate Body, completing her term in 2012. She has also served as a commissioner at the U.S. International Trade Commission and as both general counsel and chief textiles negotiator (with the rank of Ambassador) at the Office of the United States Trade Representative. She previously served as legislative director for United States Senator Terry Sanford of North Carolina. She is a graduate of Duke University and the Harvard Law School.
This lecture forms part of the research and public engagement work taking place at CTLS this year.
A reception with wine and soft drinks follows the lecture.
