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Lecture: Exceptions from the WTO Rules: Defending Non-Trade Interests

Date: Thursday, 15th May, 2025; 3.00 p.m. (Moscow time).

Lecture by: Prof. Dr. Daria Boklan, HSE University, Russia

Doctor of Law, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, deputy-head of the International Law department of National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, September 2016 – Present

Subjects: WTO law, International Environmental Law, Law of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and General International Law. 

A member to the expert group, drafting the Treaty on Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), January 2013 - December 2014.

A member of European Society of International Law (ESIL), convener of ESIL Interest Group on International Environmental Law and member of the ESIL Interest Group on International Economic Law, January 2015 – Present.  

Co-chair of International Trade & Investment Law Research Group of Law Schools Global League, January 2019 – Present.

 

Topic of the lecture: Exceptions from the WTO rules: defending non-trade interests

Crisis of international relations we are facing today put compatibility of freedom of trade and non-trade interests under the WTO Agreement on top of the agenda. After the brief introduction this lecture will address the following questions:

 

 Evolutionary interpretation of the GATT’s Article XX term “exhaustible natural resources”

  1. May physically identical products be considered as NOT like products under the WTO law if they produced with different amount of CO2 emissions?
  2. Can GATT inconsistent combating climate change measures be justified under Article XX of the GATT?
  3. Interpretation of “Pandora box” Article XXI of the GATT on security exceptions

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