, 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 … have been the social, political, and economic implications of the legitimacy debate thus far. The legitimacy debate appears …

considerable opposition from the losers in the free trade system and attendant challenges to the legitimacy of the WTO. As the … issues of scientific and economic uncertainty. This chapter analyzes how the WTO has sought legitimacy for itself and for the … international trade negotiations. Initially, legitimacy was claimed to derive from an expanding membership and the lowering of …

Legitimacy of the WTO by Joshua Meltzer ; and b) Reconstruing WTO Legitimacy Debates by Michael Fakhri . These two readings are … mainly focussed on the legitimacy of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and what constitutes the legitimacy of WTO, what …