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No Outsourcing Of Law? Wto Law As Practiced By Wto Courts, Petros C. Mavroidis
No Outsourcing Of Law? Wto Law As Practiced By Wto Courts, Petros C. Mavroidis
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This article provides a critical assessment of the corpus of law that the adjudicating bodies of the World Trade Organization (WTO) – the Appellate Body (AB) and panels – have used since the organization was established on January 1, 1995. After presenting a taxonomy of WTO law, I move to discern, and to provide a critical assessment of, the philosophy of the WTO adjudicating bodies, when called to interpret it. In discussing the law that WTO adjudicating bodies have used, I distinguish between sources of WTO law and interpretative elements. This distinction will be explicated in part I below. Part …