Thomas Cottier: Is there room for human rights considerations in free-trade agreements?

The McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism is pleased to welcome Thomas Cottier for an informal talk that asks "Is there room for human rights considerations in free-trade agreements?"

• Labour rights and the protection of the rights of workers
• Migrant workers' rights and the protection of a mobile workforce
• Trade with countries who are committing gross human rights violations

About the speaker

Thomas Cottier, former Managing Director of the World Trade Institute, of which he is a founder as well, and the Institute of European and International Economic Law, is Emeritus Professor of European and International Economic Law at the University of Bern. He is a former co-director of the national research programme on trade law and policy (NCCR Trade Regulation: From Fragmentation to Coherence) located at the WTI. Prof. Cottier is an associate editor of several journals. He was a visiting professor at the Graduate Institute, Geneva and currently teaches at the Europa Institut Saarbrücken, Germany and at Wuhan University, China. His research activities mainly relate to the law of WTO, external economic relations of the EU and international intellectual property.