Upcoming Events
Rethinking World Trade 2025
500 1st, 9th Floor| April 15 | 12:00 – 4:45 p.m. ET
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The Center on Inclusive Trade and Development (CITD) will hold its third Rethinking World Trade conference. The event will take place on the afternoon of Tuesday, April 15th, just prior to the 13th Annual Charles N. Brower Lecture, which will open the 2025 ASIL Annual Meeting at the Georgetown Law Capitol Campus.
Rethinking World Trade 2025 will bring together the academic community, trade practitioners, and policymakers for a day of cutting-edge conversations on trade, development, and supply chains in an era of nationalism. Rethinking World Trade 2025 will be a half day-long, in-person event at the Georgetown University Law Center with panelists presenting avant-garde research and policy recommendations.
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Thirteenth Annual Charles N. Brower Lecture
Gewirz 12| April 15 | 5:00 p.m. ET
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This year’s Charles N. Brower Lecture will officially kick off the 119th ASIL Annual Meeting with a special off-site event on Tuesday, April 15. Join us at Georgetown University Law Center as we welcome Claudia Salomon, President of the International Court of Arbitration and her lecture, “From Wannabe to Where to Be: Becoming the Next Arbitration Capital.”
With arbitration surging, more and more cities worldwide are competing to be the preferred seat. To succeed, they must think long-term and invest in a comprehensive strategy. This lecture will explore what it takes for a city to be a preferred seat in international arbitration and provide cities with a blueprint, as they vie to be the next arbitration hub.
This event is FREE and OPEN TO ALL (Annual Meeting registration is not required), but separate registration is required for all.
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Global Supply Chains Under Pressure: Economic Statecraft and the Changing Trade Landscape
125 E St NW, Room 430| April 16 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET
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This event will explore how economic statecraft, industrial policy, and geoeconomic competition are reshaping global trade relationships. It will delve into the use of U.S. export controls, reciprocal tariffs, and strategic interventions in sectors like semiconductors and digital trade, while also examining the evolving role of economic statecraft under the Trump 2.0 administration and its impact on the rules-based liberal order.
A key focus of the event will be the intensifying global competition over technology and digital sovereignty, particularly how control of critical supply chains and chokepoint economies—such as Taiwan’s semiconductor industry and companies like TSMC—are transforming global production networks.
The conversation will consider the impact of these shifts on digital trade agendas across the Indo-Pacific and beyond, examining whether emerging policies support or hinder broader “digital development” goals. It will also provide insights into how the strategic deployment of economic tools is transforming global supply chains, while generating new challenges for governments, corporations, and regional development initiatives.
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2025 Global Trade Academy
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April 25 – May 2, 2025 in Washington, D.C.
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The Georgetown University Law Center and the Institute of International Economic Law are delighted to announce that the 2025 Global Trade Academy will take place in-person on April 28 – May 2, 2025 at the Georgetown University Law Center and at the law offices of Sidley Austin and King & Spalding. The Academy will meet live in the heart of the nation’s capital, bringing together participants from governments, IGOs, NGOs, and the private sector, and allowing attendees to meet and exchange views with leading experts as well as participants from around the world.
Every year, the Global Trade Academy tackles tough questions by providing participants with a custom-designed program that explores the legal foundations of the global trading system, the role of regional trade agreements, and the evolution of national policies in the face of rapidly changing global priorities and heightened geopolitical rivalries. Through presentations, interactive policy conversations, breakout/networking sessions, a simulation, and a keynote speech, participants will gain insights into the core rules regulating international trade and the most recent developments shaping the global economy, with particular attention to how the trade policies of the Trump administration have redefined approaches to global economic competition and cooperation.