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Reconstruing Wto Legitimacy Debates, Michael Fakhri Oct 2011

Reconstruing Wto Legitimacy Debates, Michael Fakhri

Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law

There is an emerging consensus that the WTO is in grave need of institutional redesign. For the last fifteen years, questions of WTO institutional reform have been framed as a matter of improving the WTO’s legitimacy. This Article suggests that thinking about WTO redesign as a matter of improving its legitimacy limits our ability to fundamentally appreciate what the WTO’s function and purpose is and conceptualize what it should be. It would be more useful to know what is exactly at stake and what have been the social, political, and economic implications of the legitimacy debate thus far. The legitimacy …


Transparency And The Expansion Of The Wto Mandate, Padideh Ala'i Jan 2011

Transparency And The Expansion Of The Wto Mandate, Padideh Ala'i

American University International Law Review

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