Training

2012 INTERNATIONAL TRADING SYSTEM - THE WTO AND REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS

 

DATES:	APR 9 -  20, 2012
TUITION:	$3950

 

 

 

Overview

The world trading system has undergone massive changes in the last sixteen years. The creation of the WTO and the development of enforceable international rules governing trade in services and intellectual property rights as well as trade in goods vastly expanded the scope and effectiveness of the system. While multilateral negotiations have stalled, countries around the world have accelerated their involvement in regional trade agreements. This seminar will examine the implications of these developments, providing a careful analysis of the WTO, Uruguay Round Agreements, and of regional trade agreements. The course will also cover the techniques of negotiating trade agreements. The program is designed as a practical course that will assist trade officials in their work and help enterprises to take full advantage of the opportunities provided by multilateral and regional trade agreements. The course will be taught by former and present senior government trade officials and negotiators, leading academics, practitioners, and officials from multinational organizations, and will include site visits to U.S. government trade agencies and the United States Congress.

 

Course Outline

Background

•  History of GATT and WTO
•  Organization and functions of WTO

The Fundamental Trade Rules

• Most-favored nation
• National treatment
• Tariff bindings
• The ban on quantitative restrictions
• Transparency

Customs Issues

• Classification
•  Customs valuation
•  Rules of origin
•  Country-of-origin marking
•  Trade facilitation

Import Defense Measures

• Antidumping
•  Countervailing duties and safeguards

 

Trade and Agriculture 

Non-Tariff Barriers

• Technical barriers to trade
•  Sanitary and phytosanitary measures

    

Developing Countries

• Special and differential treatment
•  Preferential arrangements

Regional Trade Agreements

• The GATT/WTO rules on RTAs
•  The economics and politics of RTAs
•  Negotiating RTAs
•  Scope of RTAs
•  Rules of origin
•  Advantages and disadvantages of RTAs

Negotiating Trade Agreements

• Deciding whether to negotiate
•  Preparing for negotiations
•  Conducting negotiations

 

Course Advisor

Patrick Macrory is Director of ILI’s International Trade Law Center. He was a senior partner in two of Washington’s largest law firms, and has practiced trade law for more than forty years. He has taught international trade law at universities in Tokyo, Washington and London, and has written extensively on the subject. He was Editor-in-Chief of a major multi-volume work on the WTO, published by Springer in 2005.

2011 PROJECT MANAGEMENT

  

DATES:	MAY 16 - 27, 2011
TUITION:	$4550 includes New Laptop	/	$3950 without Laptop

  

 

Overview

The seminar will show how to improve preparation and management of projects. Participants will explore the processes of managing a project in its environment (project's ecosystem), learn how to enhance successes and overcome problems.

This course focuses on project management and monitoring, including team building and leadership. It is especially designed for managers of developing country projects and for persons responsible for implementing such projects. Past participants have come from government, utilities, corporations, international organizations and NGOs.

 

Course Outline

•  Crucial Issues and Steps in Project Management
•  Defining objectives (logframe)
•  Managing the project environment
•  The project life cycle
•  Project identification, preparation and approval
•  Financial and economic analysis
•  Project financing
•  Team building and leadership
•  Organization alternatives
•  Communication, motivation
•  Managerial styles
•  Conflict resolution
•  Role of project managers
•  Implementing change
•  Work breakdown structure
•  Critical path method
•  Project scheduling (MS Project Software)
•  Cost control
•  Risk analysis
•  Reporting and control
•   Monitoring
•   Database management systems (MS Access Software)
•   Introduction to procurement

  

Course Advisors

Robert Youker has over 35 years experience as a trainer and consultant in project management. His project management experience includes new product development and project management consulting for many companies. Mr. Youker has an MBA from Harvard Business School. He consulted with the World Bank Institute to develop an instructor's resource kit for Project Management training on a CD-ROM.

After working in the Indian Steel industry for 17 years, Gopi Puri joined the World Bank, where he directed seminars at the World Bank Institute. In 1977 he joined the International Finance Corporation, where he appraised investment proposals in several industries. He has a M.B.A. from the George Washington University and has worked with more than 80 developing countries.

2012 PROJECT MANAGEMENT

  

DATES:	MAY 14 - 25, 2012
TUITION:	$4550 includes IPAD	/	$3950 without IPAD

  

 

Overview

The seminar will examine all of the crucial issues and steps in project management. Participants will explore the processes of managing a project in its environment (project's ecosystem), learn how to enhance successes and overcome problems.

This course focuses on project management and monitoring, including team building and leadership. It is especially designed for managers of developing country projects and for persons responsible for implementing such projects. Past participants have come from government, utilities, corporations, international organizations and NGOs.

 

Course Outline

•  Defining objectives (logframe)
•  Managing the project environment
•  The project life cycle
•  Project identification, preparation and approval
•  Financial and economic analysis
•  Project financing
•  Team building and leadership
•  Organization alternatives
•  Communication, motivation
•  Managerial styles
•  Conflict resolution
•  Role of project managers
•  Implementing change
•  Work breakdown structure
•  Critical path method
•  Project scheduling (MS Project Software)
•  Cost control
•  Risk analysis
•  Reporting and control
•   Monitoring
•   Database management systems (MS Access Software)
•   Introduction to procurement

  

Course Advisors

Robert Youker has over 35 years experience as a project management trainer and consultant. His project management experience includes new product development and consulting for many companies. Mr. Youker has an MBA from Harvard Business School. He consulted with the World Bank Institute to develop an instructor’s resource kit for Project Management training on a CD-ROM.

Gopi Puri - After working in the Indian Steel industry for 17 years, he joined the World Bank, where he directed seminars at the World Bank Institute. In 1977 he joined the International Finance Corporation, where he appraised investment proposals in several industries. He has a M.B.A. from the George Washington University and has worked with more than 80 developing countries.

2012 ARBITRATION FOR JUDGES

 

DATES:	SEP 24 - 28, 2012
TUITION:	$1995

 

 

 

Overview

This one week intensive course is designed specifically for judges. The course is designed to provide participants with a deep insight regarding the latest legal developments on important issues involving arbitration and its intersection with domestic courts.

Intended for judges, judicial officers and court administrators.

 

Course Outline

 

International Commercial Arbitration for Judges

• History of common law arbitration permitted by courts
• National statutes and institutional rules requiring an arbitration agreement to be in writing
•  Doctrine of competence/Competence on jurisdiction
•  Doctrine of separability
•  Scope of arbitration clauses
•  Can courts join non-signatories in arbitration?
•  Court determination whether arbitral clause unfair or against national policy
•  Anti-suit injunctions issued by courts to prevent parties from litigating in foreign forums
•  Court assistance for interim relief at the outset of arbitration
•  Challenge to arbitrator while arbitration is in progress
•  Assistance in discovery in aid of arbitration
•  The statutory and treaty standards for enforcement of awards
•  Time constraints for setting aside or enforcing awards
•  Court review of terms of final award
•  May courts enforce vacated international awards?
•  Vacating awards on the grounds of evident partiality, misconduct, serious irregularity or exceeded powers.

 

 Course Advisors

Eckhard Hellbeck is a senior attorney with White & Case LLP in Washington, D.C. His practice focuses in particular on complex international arbitration and litigation involving state parties. Mr. Hellbeck’s experience includes public international law, investment protection under bilateral and multilateral treaties, sovereign state responsibility and immunity, and the enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards—areas in which he has published widely. Mr. Hellbeck has represented sovereign and private parties in international proceedings involving a broad range of areas, including financial instruments, infrastructure development projects and privatization of formerly state-owned industries, before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes and its Additional Facility, the American Arbitration Association, the London Court of International Arbitration, the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, the Vienna International Arbitral Centre, and the International Court of Justice. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Hellbeck was a lawyer and diplomat with the German Foreign Service for nine years. Mr. Hellbeck is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia, New York and Germany.