WTO at Ten

Bringing together articles by some of the leading policy-makers, including previous WTO Director-Generals, practitioners, scholars of international trade law, government officials, international civil servants, members of the WTO Appellate Body, and judges from a number of international tribunals, this volume assesses the first ten years of the World Trade Organization. It examines: the relationship and balance between political governance and dispute settlement; the functioning of the dispute settlement procedures and various reform proposals; the contribution of the Appellate Body to the development of international trade law; and treaty interpretation in a number of international dispute settlement fora such as the WTO, the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Justice, and the Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. The book has its origins in a series of events commemorating the tenth anniversary of the creation of the Appellate Body. • Contains contributions from some of the leading national and international policy-makers, practitioners, and scholars, providing the reader with a broad overview over the state-of-play in WTO dispute settlement • Includes a chapter discussing the approach to international treaty interpretation in various international tribunals • A unique feature is the discussion of the Appellate Body's case-law in comparison to the case-law of international tribunals by an Appellate Body Member and judges from these international tribunals