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 …

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 … highlight how these rules and the GATT/WTO jointly determine the scope for unilateral environmental policies for WTO Members. In … the study we examine the relevant multilateral framework dealing with this issue, as well as the relevant GATT and WTO …

It has been alleged since its inception that the WTO Dispute Settlement (DS) mechanism is biased against developing …

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 …

The basic legal instrument in the WTO Agreement regulating domestic environmental policies is the GATT National …

project aims to analyze the central instrument in the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement for the regulation of trade in …. * There is a second leg to the ALI project, in which economists and lawyers jointly analyze the emerging case law from the WTO …