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Practice Experience

Jasper Wauters advises businesses, trade associations and governments on international trade law, with a particular focus on the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO). In particular, he counsels clients at all stages of WTO dispute settlement proceedings.

Mr. Wauters has more than ten years of professional experience in international trade law and international dispute settlement. Prior to joining White & Case, Mr. Wauters worked for more than seven years as a lawyer with the WTO. In this capacity, he was responsible for advising and assisting dispute settlement panels with respect to both the conduct of the panel proceedings and the resolution of the legal claims presented in the dispute. He worked closely with many dispute settlement panels involving disputes between WTO Members relating to the Anti-Dumping Agreement, the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, and the Safeguards Agreement. In addition, Mr. Wauters has lectured on almost all aspects of WTO law as part of the WTO's technical assistance programs. He has advised numerous WTO Member governments on their WTO obligations and has assisted WTO Members in the drafting of WTO-consistent legislation.

Before joining the WTO, Mr. Wauters practiced as a lawyer in a major Brussels-based law firm, where he advised clients conducting business in the European Union on matters relating to international trade law, European competition law and intellectual property law. Mr. Wauters started his career in international law as an Associate Legal Officer at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), advising the judges of the trial chamber on matters of public international law.

Mr. Wauters is a Reporter on WTO law for the American Law Institute (ALI), analyzing recent WTO decisions as part of ALI's project on Principles of Trade Law. Mr. Wauters is a lecturer at the LL.M. programme on International and European Economic and Business Law of the University of Lausanne.

Mr. Wauters is listed in Who's Who Legal 2008 – The International Who’s Who of Trade and Customs Lawyers.

Education
Postgraduate degree in International Law (D.E.S.), Graduate Institute for International Studies, Geneva, 1997
Degree in Law, Catholic University of Leuven, magna cum laude, 1995

Professional Associations and Memberships
International Law Association

Publications
Co-author, "The Law and Economics of Contingent Trade Protection it the WTO," Elgar International Economic Law Series, Elgar Publishers, 2008, p. 640
"The Safeguards Agreement - An Overview", in George A. Bermann and Petros C. Mavroidis (Eds.), The Law and Economics of Contingent Protection in International Trade, Cambridge University Press, 2008
"A Cloudy Sunset – the case of United States – Oil Country Tubular Goods Sunset Reviews", in The American Law Institute Reporters Studies on WTO Law, The WTO Case Law of 2004 – 2005, Legal and Economic Analysis, Cambridge University Press, 2008
"United States - Anti-Dumping Measures on Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG) from Mexico", in The American Law Institute Reporters Studies on WTO Law, The WTO Case Law of 2004 – 2005, Legal and Economic Analysis, Cambridge University Press, 2008

Speaking Engagements
"A Practitioner’s View on the WTO Dispute Settlement Process", British Institute for International and Comparative Law (BIICL), Summer Course on International Commercial Contracts, August 2008
"The Zeroing Saga", Annual Invitational Conference of the American Law Institute, Reporters Studies on WTO Law, June 2008
"The Rule of Precedent in WTO Law: There is a Will, but Where Is the Way?", Tenth Cameron May Dispute Settlement Conference, June 2007

Languages
English
Dutch
French
Spanish

Citizenship
Belgium