Course Mentors
Dr. Arthur E. Appleton, Appleton Luff - International Lawyers
Dr. Appleton is a Founding Partner of Appleton Luff – International Lawyers (www.appletonluff.com) a boutique international trade and arbitration firm with offices in Brussels, Geneva, Singapore, Warsaw and Washington, D.C. Dr. Appleton has more than 20 years of experience in the field of international trade (GATT/WTO) law dating back to the late 1980s when he advised a prominent Asian country during the Uruguay Round negotiations. He works with businesses, sovereign States, international organizations and non-governmental organizations on international trade and arbitration matters and has appeared as lead counsel before the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization. He has published two books and more than 30 articles on trade and arbitration issues, and is a co-editor (with Patrick Macrory and Michael Plummer) of “The World Trade Organization: Legal, Economic and Political Analysis”, a multi-volume work that appeared in spring 2005. Dr. Appleton serves on the Board of Directors of the World Trade Institute, and on the Steering Committee of the International Trade Law Center of the International Law Institute (Washington, D.C.). He is also on the Board of the International Business Lawyers Association (Geneva), and the Editorial Board of Legal Issues of Economic Integration. Dr. Appleton has been recognized in the International Who’s Who of Trade and Customs Lawyers since the year 2000. Prior to forming Appleton Luff, Dr. Appleton was Counsel with White & Case and Of Counsel with Lalive & Partners.
Christian Häberli works as a Senior Research Fellow in WTI / NCCR / WP4 on trade, agriculture and development issues. In 1977 he graduated with a Ph.D. on African Investment Law. He also completed studies in development sciences in Geneva (1973-75) and in theology at Bern University (2007-09). His professional career started in 1978 at the International Labour Organisation (ILO), with 2 years each in Madagascar and Thailand, followed by 3 years with the Swiss Development Cooperation in Nepal. From 1986 to 2007 he worked at the Swiss Federal Department (Ministry) for Economic Affairs. In the WTO, he chaired the Committee on Agriculture (Regular Session) and served in four dispute settlement panels, namely in EC – Bananas, Japan – Apples, EC – Biotech/GMO and China – Trading Rights.Prof. Marion Panizzon, University of Bern
Marion Panizzon is assistant professor in international law at the University of Bern. She teaches a Master-level course in international trade regulation. Marion leads a research group on the law of economic migration for the National Center for Competency in Research (NCCR). Next to her NCCR projects, she heads a separate research project sponsored by the Swiss Science Foundation on the global administrative law of labor migration . Marion is a faculty member of the MILE programme at the WTI, a guest lecturer at the Center of Competence for Public Management of the University of Berne and at the Trade Policy Center in Africa (TRAPCA), Arusha. Marion received her bilingual law degree from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland and a LLM from Duke University. Her doctoral thesis, sponsored by a van Calker scholarship, dealt with Good Faith in the Jurisprudence of the WTO (Hart Publishing, 2006). Marion is co-editor of Intellectual Property: Trade, Competition, and Sustainable Development, Michigan University Press (2003), GATS and the Regulation of International Trade in Services, Cambridge University Press (2008) and Migration and Mobility Partnerships (Routledge, 2010).
Mr. Pierre Sauvé, World Trade Institute
Pierre Sauvé is Deputy Managing Director and Director of Studies at the World Trade Institute (WTI), in Berne, Switzerland, where he teaches in the WTI’s MILE programme and directs a Swiss National Foundation research project on the evolving international regulatory framework in service industries (2005-9). He is a Visiting Lecturer and Research Associate in the International Trade Policy Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), in London, U.K., and also holds a Visiting Professor appointments in the International Relations Department at the College of Europe, in Bruges, Belgium and at the University of Barcelona Law School, whose LLM programme in International Economic Law and Policy (IELPO) he advises. Since 1999, he has taught in the Academy of International Law’s annual Summer Academy on the Law and Economics of the WTO, held in Macau. He is a Senior Fellow of the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), in Brussels, Belgium, since its launch in October 2006. He was a Visiting Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences-Po), in Paris, France, in 2003–04 and has worked as a consultant for the World Bank since January 2003. From 1998–2000, he taught at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during which period he was also appointed Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, in Washington, D.C. He served as Canada’s services negotiator in the North American Free Trade Agreement and was a staff member at the Bank for International Settlements, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the OECD Trade Directorate. In 2007, he was a member of the Warwick Commission on the future of the multilateral trading system. Pierre Sauvé’s research interests focus on the evolution of rule-making for services trade and investment and the impact that regional integration agreements exert on the design and operation of the multilateral trading system.