This class will focus on the WTO system, but will also include the IMF and the World Bank. It will trace the origins and development of the world trading system and the economic and philosophical principles underlying the international trading regime. It will primarily focus on analyzing the institutions and agreements that have shaped international trade rules, and their underlying policies, as well as identifying critical issues and challenges for the future, including the interaction of the world trading regime with issues such as ‘democracy’, ‘free trade’, ‘sovereignty’ and ‘development’. The class will also explore the interaction of WTO law with other non-economic values and norms, as well as its potential to penetrate into and shape domestic legal systems.