This article will China's participation in the WTO dispute settlement process since its admission into the organization in 2001 to 2011. The aim of the article is to demonstrate China's changing attitude towards its role in the multilateral trading system by focussing on China's engagement with...

The World Trade Organization has recently seen a spate of disputes over provisions in an unfamiliar instrument, the Protocol of Accession. While the process of accession to the WTO is traditionally an intensely political, secretive and often protracted one, the focus of my research is on the...