Queen’s Law is offering Trade Law Essentials: What Businesses Need to Know, an intensive program running virtually December 8–10, 2025, to give business and legal professionals timely, strategic trade law insights.
Queen’s Law is offering Trade Law Essentials: What Businesses Need to Know, an intensive program running virtually December 8–10, 2025, to give business and legal professionals timely, strategic trade law insights.

Queen’s Law launches an intensive program offering timely, strategic trade law insights for business and legal professionals.

In today’s volatile global trade environment, uncertainty isn’t just a challenge — it’s a constant. From shifting tariffs and sanctions to evolving supply chain rules and geopolitical tensions, international trade regulations are being rewritten in real time. For businesses and the professionals who advise them, staying ahead of these changes is now essential.

Trade Law Essentials: What Businesses Need to Know, a three-day professional intensive program running December 8–10, 2025, provides a timely opportunity to learn directly from leading Canadian and international trade law experts. Delivered virtually via Zoom, this program is designed for business leaders, legal professionals, and government and non-profit executives whose work intersects with cross-border trade and investment.

“The international trade ecosystem is undergoing seismic shifts,” says course developer Professor Nicolas Lamp. “With increasing scrutiny on supply chains, unpredictable tariff regimes, and mounting geopolitical pressures, businesses face unprecedented legal and regulatory risks. This intensive course aims to equip participants with the tools to mitigate those risks and identify strategic opportunities in a rapidly changing landscape.”

Over three immersive days, participants will explore:

  • The current and likely future state of tariffs in Canada and the U.S.
  • Contract strategies to reduce tariff risks
  • Rules on classification, valuation, and origin of goods
  • Accessing trade remedies and navigating dispute mechanisms
  • Export restrictions and sanctions amid global conflicts
  • Regulatory impacts on supply chain management and due diligence
  • Canada’s “rules to tools” policy shift and what it means for business
  • Anticipating trade policy changes in the U.S., China, and beyond

This program is eligible for more than 10 hours of Substantive Content for the Law Society of Ontario’s CPD requirements for lawyers.

The program brings together leading trade law experts from government, academia, and the private sector as instructors, including:

  • Nicolas Lamp – Associate Professor, Queen’s Law; co-author, Six Faces of Globalization; Director, Queen’s Institute on Trade Policy
  • Matthew Kronby – Partner, Osler; former Director-General, Government of Canada Trade Law Bureau
  • Jessica Horwitz – Partner, Bennett Jones
  • Andrew Lanouette – Partner, Cassidy Levy Kent
  • Melisa Celebican – Partner, Cassidy Levy Kent
  • Julia Webster – Partner, Baker McKenzie
  • Kathleen Claussen – Professor, Georgetown Law; former Associate General Counsel at the U.S. Trade Representative
  • Ari Van Assche, Professor, Department of International Business, HEC Montréal
  • Wendy J. Wagner – Partner, Gowling WLG

“With trade disruption reaching levels we haven’t seen in decades, businesses and their advisors need timely legal and strategic insight to stay competitive and prepare for what’s ahead,” says Lamp. “This professional intensive is designed to deliver exactly that.”

The fee for Trade Law Essentials is $2,100 payable upon acceptance of an offer of admission, with discounts available for participants from larger organizations, non-profits, NGOs, and educational organizations.

For more information and to register, please visit the Trade Law Essentials Professional Intensive webpage.

To learn more about Professor Nicolas Lamp’s work in trade law, read “Shaping the future of trade law.”