Der Handel mit Bildungsdienstleistungen nach dem GATS

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.