Petros C. Mavroidis (Columbia Law School), “Industrial Policy in the Name of National Security: What Role for the WTO?”

Date: 

Monday, April 3, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St., and Online (Zoom)

Mavroidis seminar poster

Petros C. Mavroidis 
Edwin B. Parker Professor of Foreign and Comparative Law, Columbia Law School.


Discussant: Mark Wu 
Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Faculty Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University.

Moderator: Christina L. Davis
Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.


This seminar is part of the Special Series on Policy Innovations in Crises, supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Undergraduate Japan Policy Network; the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School; the Harvard Kennedy School Japan Caucus; and the East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School.

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Additional Resources

  1. Petros C. Mavroidis, Bernard Hoekman, and Douglas Nelson, "Geopolitical Competition, Globalization and WTO Reform." Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. RSC_67, November 28, 2022; publication in The World Economy forthcoming.
  2. Simon Lester and Inu Manak, "A Proposal for a Commitee on National Security at the WTO." Duke Journal of Compartive & International Law, Vol. 30:267, 2020.
  3. Mona Pinchis-Paulsen, "Trade Multilateralism and U.S. National Security: The Making of the GATT Security Exceptions." Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol. 41 Issue 1, 2020.