Topic: Developing Countries in the WTO’s Free Market Trade Regime

Speaker: Prof. James J. Nedumpara

Professor and Head at the Centre for Trade and Investment Law (CTIL) at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi and a Professor at Jindal Global Law School

Topic: Implications for India Post Cairn & Vodafone Arbitration Cases

Speaker: Prof. Govindraj G. Hegde

Associate Professor of Law and Chair of Ministry of Commerce Chair on International Trade Laws at NLSIU, Bangalore

Themes

• International trade law and environmental regulation
  Eg.: Carbon credit and impact on international trade; fisheries subsidies.
• Health impacts of free trade
  Eg.:Medical products and TRIPS; Vaccine equality.
• International trade law, development and inequality
  Eg.:International trade law, development and inequality
• Future of multilateralism in trade: recent concerns (WTO and regional trade agreements)
  Eg.: Implications of the Trade Facilitation Agreement for developing countries; analysing the impacts of regional trade agreements on free trade (RCEP, CPTPP etc.); Appellate Body crisis and Walker principles; US-China Trade wars.

Submission Guidelines

• Register and make payment for the competition using the form given at the end of the post.
• Once you are allotted a code after registration through mail, you can fill this form to submit the essay at any stage before the submission deadline. It should be in MS Word format (.doc) or (.docx) with the name of the file as the allotted code. No biographical information or references, including the name(s) of the author(s), affiliation(s) and acknowledgements should be included in the text of the essay document.
• The word limit is 3000-4000 words, excluding footnotes. No substantive footnoting is permitted.
• An abstract of not more than 200 words shall be provided.
• Co – authorship is not permitted.
• The body of the paper shall be as follows:
• Font: Times New Roman,
• Font Size: 12,
• Line Spacing: 1.5.
• Citations
• Font: Times New Roman,
• Font Size: 10, and
• Line Spacing: 1
• Headings should be in bold and center-aligned.
• Footnotes must conform to the OSCOLA (4th edition). Endnotes are not permitted.
• The essay should not be submitted for any other competition and/or for any other purposes.
• The essay must be the original and bonafide work of the participant.

Who can Participate?

All students pursuing under-graduate (three/five year) or post-graduate law degrees from any law school/university/college recognized by the Bar Council of India are eligible to participate in the Competition.

For any clarifications, please write to ciril@nls.ac.in

Registration Details

• Participants will be charged a registration fee of Rs. 100.
• All registered participants will have the opportunity to attend 2 webinars by experts in the field of international trade law.
• All registered participants who submit essays for the competition will be awarded E-Certificates.

Important Dates

• Registration opens: February 1, 2022
• Registration closes: February 25, 2022
• Submission deadline: April 1, 2022

Awards

1st Prize:

• Cash Prize of Rs. 15,000
• SCC Online Platinum Plus (Academic, Worth Rs. 36,000)
• 1-year complimentary subscription to EBC Learning (worth Rs. 14,500)
• Internship at Centre for Trade and Investment Law (CTIL)
• Opportunity to be published in the Indian Journal of International Economic Law (IJIEL) Journal/Blog

2nd Prize:

• Cash Prize of Rs. 7,000
• SCC Online Platinum Plus (Academic, Worth Rs. 36,000)
• 1-year complimentary subscription to EBC Learning (worth Rs. 14,500)
• Internship at Centre for Trade and Investment Law (CTIL)
• Opportunity to be published in the Indian Journal of International Economic Law (IJIEL) Journal/Blog

3rd Prize:

• Cash Prize of Rs. 5,000
• 1-year complimentary subscription to EBC Learning (worth Rs. 14,500)
• Internship at Centre for Trade and Investment Law (CTIL)
• Opportunity to be published in the Indian Journal of International Economic Law (IJIEL) Journal/Blog

Contact Information

Siddhant Choudhury
Convenor, CIRIL
(+918828907703)

Shweta Prasad Shah
Joint Convenor, CIRIL
(+919561180685)

Mail: ciril@nls.ac.in