Amrita Bahri
Dr. Amrita Bahri is Assistant Professor of International Trade Law at ITAM and Co-Chair Professor for WTO Chair Program (Mexico). Amrita is the Founding Chair of International Trade & Investment Law Research Group, Law Schools Global League and Founding Member of the South Asian International Economic Law Network. She has a PhD in International Trade Law from University of Birmingham and LLM in International Business Law from London School of Economics.
Amrita has published on WTO dispute settlement, public private partnership and capacity-building in emerging economies, regional trade agreements and gender equality. She has authored the monograph Public Private Partnership for WTO dispute settlement: Enabling Developing Countries (Edward Elgar, 2018).
Her academic articles are published in academic journals including Journal of International Economic Law, World Trade Review, Journal of World Trade, Trade, Law & Development, Global Trade & Customs Journal, and Journal of International Trade Law & Policy. Working with International Trade Centre’s team, Amrita has designed the very first framework to measure gender-responsiveness of free trade agreements.
Amrita Bahri
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