Professor Markus Wagner was invited to speak at the Faculty of Law at the University of Sao Paulo. His presentation on “Private Standards and International Trade Law” analyzed the challenges the increasing privatization of regulatory affairs poses to the international trading system and how private standardization fits into this legal framework. Professor Wagner teaches and writes in the areas of international law, constitutional law and comparative law. His recent scholarship has focused on the development of autonomous weaponry and its compatibility with international humanitarian law and various aspects of international economic law.