The establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995 was a historic achievement. It provided a means for implementing the Uruguay Round agreements, while providing for continuity with the previous GATT system, and also formally established, for the first time in history, an...

The first Director of the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat responds to Joost Pauwelyn's book and articles on the relationship between WTO law and other international law. She asks: what status does non-WTO law, including customary international law, general international law and other treaties,...

The former Director of the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat reviews Claude Barfield's book, Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy: The Future of the World Trade Organization, which aroused great interest around the world when it was published. Until this book, the WTO dispute settlement system was...

Institutional reform of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is needed to equip it for the challenges of the future. However, the major problem with rule making and decision making in the WTO is not the consensus rule or the decision-making rules in the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the WTO. It...