This course examines the legal and practical interaction between the rules of the World Trade Organisation and international human rights law. Students are introduced to the primary human rights instruments, particularly those covering economic and social rights, as well as to the principles of WTO law and the WTO agreements. Cases raising human rights issues before the WTO's Appellate Body are studied in detail. Special attention is given to health rights (particularly developing countries' access to patented drugs), government provision of essential services, "food security," Western agricultural and industrial protectionism, labour rights, gender in development, intellectual property rights and traditional knowledge, issues of national sovereignty and the relationship between the WTO, the World Bank and the IMF.