Date: 2020
Type: Article
To AB or not to AB? : dispute settlement in WTO reform
Journal of international economic law, 2020, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 1-20
HOEKMAN, Bernard M., MAVROIDIS, Petros C., To AB or not to AB? : dispute settlement in WTO reform, Journal of international economic law, 2020, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 1-20
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/70055
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Recent debates on the operation of the World Trade Organization's dispute resolution mechanism have focused primarily on the appellate body. We argue that this neglects the first-order issue confronting the rules-based trading system : sustaining the principle of depoliticized conflict resolution that is reflected in the negative consensus rule for the adoption of dispute settlement findings. Improving the quality of the work of panels by appointing a roster of full-time professional adjudicators, complemented by reforms to World Trade Organization working practices that reduce incentives to resort to formal dispute settlement, can resolve the main issues that led to the appellate body crisis. Effective, coherent, and consistent World Trade Organization dispute resolution need not include an appellate body. An appropriately redesigned single-stage process can serve just as well, if not better.
Additional information:
First published online: 02 September 2020
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/70055
Full-text via DOI: 10.1093/jiel/jgaa020
ISSN: 1369-3034; 1464-3758
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Initial version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/67008
Version: Published version of EUI WP RSCAS; 2020/34
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