This is a survey course on the legal regime of the World Trade Organization ("WTO"), which stands at the center of the current international debate about 'globalization." The course will examine, among other things, the legal structure of the WTO, dispute settlement, most favored nation and national treatment principles, trade in services, trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights, and linkages/conflicts between trade regulation and environmental protection, labor standards and other important areas of domestic policy. In addition, we will discuss various "hot topics" in international trade law, including the North-South divide over trade in agricultural products; national restrictions on importation of genetically modified organisms; the availability of patented pharmaceuticals in least developed countries; and "cutlural" limits on trade in audiovisual products such as films, videos, and television programming.