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