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Full-Text Articles in International Trade Law
Table Talk: Around The Table Of The Appellate Body Of The World Trade Organization, James Bacchus
Table Talk: Around The Table Of The Appellate Body Of The World Trade Organization, James Bacchus
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
In this Article, James Bacchus describes his experiences as a "faceless foreign judge" of the World Trade Organization. In this capacity, Bacchus and his six colleagues on the WTO Appellate Body hear appeals in international trade disputes among the 144 member countries and other customs territories that are Members of the WTO. Bound by the WTO Rules of Conduct, he cannot comment on cases or the specific deliberation process, but rather comments on the processes and role of the Appellate Body relative to the WTO.
World Trade Organization's Anti-Discrimination Jurisprudence: Free Trade, National Sovereignty, And Environmental Health In The Balance, The , Ari Afilalo, Sheila Foster
World Trade Organization's Anti-Discrimination Jurisprudence: Free Trade, National Sovereignty, And Environmental Health In The Balance, The , Ari Afilalo, Sheila Foster
Faculty Scholarship
A discussion of how the World Trade Organization (WTO) resolves disputes centering on the tension between the free trade commit ment of the General Agreement on the Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and domestic policies regarding such matters as environmental, health, consumer, and labor protection. This article describes this evolving jurisprudential framework and the cases that comprise it, and illustrates how this framework articulates and applies an anti-discrimination norm that pervades the GATT. If properly articulated and applied, we argue, the anti-discrimination jurisprudence of the WTO will foster the trade interests that underlie the GATT up to the point where the …
Knowledge, Legitimacy, Efficiency And The Institutionalization Of Dispute Settlement Procedures At The World Trade Organization And The World Intellectual Property Organization, Michael P. Ryan
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
International legal research regarding international economic dispute settlement tends to be a-theoretical. A theoretically-grounded analytic framework is employed in this article which draws from scholarship from political science, sociology, and economics regarding institutions and international governmental organizations. The knowledge-legitimacy-efficiency analytic framework is applied in this article to studies of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GA TT)/World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement in order to relate this relevant scholarship to the economic field under primary study, Internet domain names. GA TT/WTO knowledge regarding international trade law has thickened through multi-lateral trade negotiations and dispute settlement decisions. The WTO's legitimacy is …
Afterword: The Question Of Linkage, Jagdish N. Bhagwati
Afterword: The Question Of Linkage, Jagdish N. Bhagwati
Faculty Scholarship
Commenting on the papers in this symposium is paradoxically a difficult task. The authorsare remarkably distinguished and one can only learn from what they write. Indeed, I have learned much from them (especially from Dean David Leebron's splendid clarification of several aspects of linkage, a paper that shows that he should have been an Oxford philosopher if only he had not been such a successful legal scholar). Yet it is easy for an invited commentator to be overwhelmed by despair because the authors write for the most part as if in a research vacuum. There is little attempt at relating …