This paper discusses allocation of burden of proof in environmental disputes in the WTO system. Besides laying down the … natural principles that (i) the complainant carries the burden to (ii) make a prima facie case that its claim holds, WTO …

This paper discusses allocation of burden of proof in environmental disputes in the WTO system. Besides laying down the … natural principles that (i) the complainant carries the burden to (ii) make a prima facie case that its claim holds, WTO …

in WTO dispute settlement. Its distinguishing feature is that it seeks to address this relationship in light of the … between them. The basic conclusion is that legislators' silence concerning this relationship should speak volumes to WTO … adjudicating bodies: MEAs should not be automatically understood as imposing legally binding obligations on WTO Members, but could …

In this paper, we provide some descriptive statistics of the first twenty years of the WTO (World Trade Organization …) dispute settlement. The database used in this paper was assembled by the authors and has been publicly available (http://globalgovernanceprogramme.eui.eu/wto … parties, as well as the WTO judges (panelists and Appellate Body members); and, finally, information regarding the subject …

started with the reforms of Deng Xiaoping in the 1970s. However, China's participation in the WTO has been anything but smooth … other is to stay idle and accept that the WTO must accommodate different economic regimes, no matter how idiosyncratic. In … that, while in the past the GATT/WTO had to address the accession of socialist countries or of big trading nations, it …

This paper surveys the law and economics literature on WTO dispute settlement. As a background, we first briefly lay …

The purpose of this paper is to report some initial findings based on the WTO Dispute Settlement Data Set (Ver. 2 … of the Dispute Settlement (DS) system. It covers all 351 WTO disputes initiated through the official filing of a Request …

concerning allocation of jurisdiction which are common to all WTO Members and bind them by virtue of their appurtenance to the … international community. In this paper, we focus on the interaction between trade and environment. The purpose of this study is to … highlight how these rules and the GATT/WTO jointly determine the scope for unilateral environmental policies for WTO Members. In …

complainants, and/or over-represented as respondents in the WTO dispute settlement system. Most of this literature has focused on … claims made in each WTO dispute between 1995 and 2006, as well as a rough classification as to whether each specific claim …