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The USMCA Rapid Response Mechanism: Protecting Labor Rights in North America
Hotung 1000| March 28, 2025 | 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. ET
The Georgetown Center for the Advancement of the Rule of Law in the Americas (CAROLA), the Institute of International Economic Law ,and El Colegio de México invite you to an insightful discussion on “The USMCA Rapid Response Mechanism: Protecting Labor Rights in North America,” which will take place on March 28, 2025, from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Georgetown University’s Eric E. Hotung International Law Building (Classroom 1000).
Engage with leading experts Sandra Polaski (Boston University, Global Economic Governance Initiative), Ricardo Ramírez Hernández (RRH Consultores), Daniel Rangel (Rethink Trade), Josh Kagan (Kelley Drye & Warren LLP), and Professor Kathleen Claussen (Georgetown Law) as they explore how the USMCA’s innovative Rapid Response Mechanism can help safeguard labor rights across North America.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about groundbreaking international economic governance and labor protection developments.
Location: Eric E. Hotung International Law Building, Classroom 1000, 550 1st Street, Washington, DC 20001
Online: www.youtube.com/@carolageorgetownlaw6430
When Chokepoints Become Checkpoints: Navigating Export Controls in an Era of Technological Sovereignty
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April 16, 2025
This panel will explore how chokepoint economies in the semiconductor supply chain, particularly Taiwan, are affected by U.S. unilateralism in export controls. It will examine the role of investment restrictions and other unilateral control measures as potential barriers to technology flows, as well as their impact on the resilience of global supply chains. Insights will also be provided on how other economies—both key nodes in the semiconductor supply chain, like Japan and South Korea, and critical transshipment points, like Singapore—are adapting their regulatory frameworks. The discussion will also address the response from international law, particularly how digital plurilateralism could serve as a middle ground between multilateralism and the unilateral exercise of technological sovereignty.–
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.