In this work, Tobias Reimold analyzes the legal framework of the GATS regarding trade in educational services and focuses on possible conflicts between a liberalization of trade and national and European politics in the education sector.
The awareness of the economic importance of the international market for education has led to negotiations among WTO members on a liberalization of trade in educational services. In this work, Tobias Reimold analyzes the respective legal framework of the GATS and focuses on possible conflicts between a liberalization of trade and national and European politics in the education sector. The author shows that the right to education contributes to a legal recognition of education as a core responsibility of the state in international law and questions whether or not this recognition could be reflected in the interpretation of the provision in Article I:3 GATS which excludes services supplied in the exercise of governmental authority from the scope of the agreement.
Tobias Reimold
Geboren 1977; Studium der Rechtswissenschaft in Tübingen und Speyer, Aufbaustudiengang Privates und Öffentliches Wirtschaftsrecht in Jena (LL.M. oec.), Masterstudiengang Commercial Law in Auckland/Neuseeland; 2009 Promotion; Rechtsanwalt in Stuttgart.
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