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Professor John H. Jackson's Georgetown Law Course & Seminar

Professor Jackson receives many requests for help in planning a course on international trade law or the WTO, so he agreed to post material here for downloading and printing by any teacher who wishes information about his course. Included is a brief introductory essay about the philosophy of the course. These materials are not to be duplicated for purposes other than that expressed in this web site. It is the hope of the Institute that these materials will be useful to law teachers, and possibly other teachers, at various levels of education.

Generally, it is quite difficult to develop a course in international economic law. This is partly because the material is changing so rapidly, but also because of the level of detail which has to be understood and organized in a way so as to allow students, with the limited time and resources they possess, to efficiently learn the material. For example, a core part of courses of this type now consists of reports of the WTO dispute settlement system. However, these reports are very voluminous and therefore it is important to have abridged versions of these cases available. Professor Jackson uses such abridged versions, and posts them here for teachers to use also. He wishes to express the caveat that editing and abridging a case never suits every teacher or scholar, since a number of the decisions of what to include and exclude are either somewhat arbitrary, or are related to specific overall goals of the course involved, but sometimes the goal is not so articulated.

• Professor John H. Jackson's Study Plan for International Trade Law & WTO Courses

• Syllabus for Professor Jackson's International Trade Course (including some past exams)

• Syllabus for Seminar on the WTO Dispute Settlement System
• Table of Contents of Legal Problems of International Economic Relations, the Casebook used by Professor Jackson and his co-authors, as well as many of his colleagues and teachers elsewhere in the world (West Publishing Company, 5th Edition, 2008)
• Table of Contents of 2008 Document Supplement to Legal Problems of International Economic Relations
• Abridged GATT/WTO Panel and Appellate Body Reports used by Professor Jackson.