Proposals
The 2021 G2 Legal Hackathon challenged students from around the world to identify a global challenge and proposal a politically feasible, legally rigorous way to tackle it through the World Trade Organization (WTO).
The proposals below represent bold new ideas and innovative solutions spanning a broad gamut of topics – from long-running WTO debates on fisheries subsidies and appellate body reform, and topical issues like Covid-19 relief and women’s economic empowerment, through issues the WTO has never tackled like virtual water.
On behalf of the Georgetown University Law Center, the Graduate Institute of Geneva, and the Geneva Trade Platform, we thank all the participants for their outstanding submissions and encourage you to peruse them below.
G2 Legal Hackathon 2021
Winning Proposals
1st Place: “Ensuring PPE Market Supply Transparency“, Team Phoenix
2nd Place: ”Fossil Fuel Subsidies Reform“, Team BSOG. Read the full paper on Fossil Fuel Subsidies here.
3rd Place: “Feminizing Financing for Trade in Africa“, Team Penn Law
Remaining Proposals
(In alphabetical order)
- “Agreement on E-Commerce“, Team UBUNTU Visionaries
- “Coding New Topical Agreements into GATT and GATS“, Team Women in Trade
- “Covid-19 Emergency Agreement“, Team UBA
- “Creating a Global Carbon Market through the WTO“, Team Colgate Raiders 2025
- “Dispute-Settlement Moratorium on Measures Relating to Plastic Products and Sustainable Alternatives“, Team Leuven TWAIL Blazers
- “Enforcing Green Trade through a Plurilateral WTO Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Environmental Protection“, Team D.E.G.S
- “How To Incorporate Sustainability Standards Into The WTO’s Regulatory Structure“, Team Intercontinental
- “How to Make the WTO Fit for Future Trade: Rethinking and Rebooting the EGA“, Team Triumvirat
- “Human Rights, Global Supply-Chains and the WTO: The Hidden Burden of Trade“, Team CzechoSlovak
- “Intellectual Property and Pandemics“, Team Judiciary Square Traders
- “Precautionary Approach To Determine “Harmful Subsidies” In The Fisheries Subsidies Negotiation“, Team Trade Her Way
- “Preferential Treatment for Trade in COVID-19 Combating Goods“, Team University of Botswana
- “Reform of the Appellate Body“, Team New Trade Generation
- “Trade and Climate Change“, Team GC
- “Trade Remedy Dispute Settlement Mechanism“, Team Made for Nations
- “Using Blockchain Technology To Improve Export Transactions“, UWEZO Group
- “Virtual Water“, Team Trader Joe
- “WTO Dispute Settlement System“, University of Leicester
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