This course aims to

• provide students with a critical understanding of the law and policy of modern international trade agreements, with an emphasis on the legal regime of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
• expose students to the complex intersections between the regulation of international trade and domestic regulatory authorities, and the interface between law, politics and public policy that emerges in international trade negotiation and dispute settlement.
• encourage students to identify and search for an appropriate understanding of the current issues in the rules-based multilateral trading system.

The use of Generative AI tools is not allowed. To pass each course, students need a total score of at least 40% and a minimum of 30% in both the continuous assessment (CA) component and final exam component. To ensure fair and comprehensive assessment of students’ course performance, the pass mark requirement for the CA component will be waived for courses with a CA component equal to or less than 30%. This means students only need to achieve the pass marks for the final exam component AND the overall mark to pass the course. Continuous assessment for this purpose means those ways in which students are assessed otherwise than by the end of semester examination.