International Trade and Development Law
WCL LAW 817-001
Spring 2008
Course Syllabus
Presentations:
Neoclassical Growth Theory
International Institutions and Economic Growth
Trade in Economic Development
Introduction to International Trade Law
Introduction to the World Trade Organization
Supplemental Readings:
Week 1: Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom
Week 2: Dani Rodrik: Rethinking Growth Policies in the Developing World
Week 3: Tom Ginsburg, Does Law Matter for Economic Development?
Week 4: Douglass North, Economic Performance Through Time
Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson, Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth (Required to read at least through page 29; rest is Recommended reading).
Joel Paul, Do International Trade Institutions Contribute to Economic Growth and Development?
Week 5: Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents, Chapter 1
William Easterly, The Elusive Quest for Growth, Chapter 6
Week 7: Stiglitz, Fair Trade for All: Chapter 2, Trade Can be Good for Development
Joel Trachtman, Legal Aspects of a Poverty Agenda at the WTO
Week 8: John Jackson, The World Trading System, Chapter 1
Raj Bhala, Trade, Development and Social Justice, Chapter 2
Roberto Unger, Free Trade Reimagined (2007)
Week 9: Barton, The Evolution of the Trade Regime, Chapter 3
Stiglitz, Fair Trade for All: Chapter 6, Special and Differential Treatment
Week 10: Richard Newfarmer, Trade, Doha and Development
Stiglitz, Fair Trade for All, Chapter 3
Week 11: Newfarmer, Regional Trade Agreements, Chapter 20
Barton, Expansion of GATT/WTO Membership, Chapter 6
Week 12: Harold Demsetz, Toward a Theory of Property Rights
Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capital, Chapter 6
World Bank, Informality: Exit and Exclusion
Marty Chen, Rethinking the Informal Economy (Suggested reading)
Week 13: David Dollar and Aart Kraay, Globalization, Poverty and Inequality
Dani Rodrik, Comments on Dollar and Kraay
Frank Garcia, Trade and Inequality
