This course aims to enhance the capacity for research leveraging Legal TINA and to assist in understanding and negotiating RTAs. It will focus on digital trade and sustainable development provisions in trade agreements, including core digital trade issues, such as paperless trade and data-related cooperation; and key sustainable development areas, such as MSMEs, gender, environment, and labour.
This course will demonstrate, elaborate, guide, and promote the use of the free online tool assisting legal research in regional trade agreements (RTAs) and trade negotiations: Legal TINA (https://legal.tina.trade/). Legal TINA is an extension of the original TINA (https://tina.trade/). It provides guidance and analytical capabilities to develop the text and legal provisions of trade agreements. Legal TINA allows users to learn the basic framework of RTAs and explore emerging trends, assisting negotiators in narrowing down the formulation of provisions based on priorities and needs. It also enables users to easily search and compare the texts of the existing trade agreements, making it easier to understand what text may be more acceptable to negotiating parties involved and what more ambitious provisions may be proposed. The latest update of Legal TINA will be available online from the start of the course.
Registration:
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Deadline for registration: 9 August 2026 (late registration may be accepted by 16 August)
Kindly note that we approve registrations on a selective basis as seats are limited. You will be notified by email no later than 10 August if you are successfully registered. For late registrations after 9 August, we will inform you about the late acceptance within 3 working days after you submit the registration form.
