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The Diversity Challenge : Exploring the 'Invisible College' of International Arbitration

Franck, Susan; Freda, James; Lavin, Kellen; Lehmann, … - 2015

how development status was defined, developing world arbitrators accounted for fifteen to twenty percent of arbitrators …; and (4) for all measures used to analyze development status, arbitrators from the developing world received a … statistically lower number of appointments than their developed world counterparts. Recognizing the data revealed diversity in …

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Explaining Energy Disputes at the World Trade Organization

Meyer, Timothy - 2016

The WTO and the broader international trade regime have seen an explosion of challenges to government support for renewable energy in the last seven years, while no country has brought a formal dispute challenging fossil fuel subsidies in the GATT/WTO’s history. This pattern is puzzling...

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Resolving Trade Disputes : The Mechanisms of GATT/WTO Dispute Resolution

Erskine, Daniel H. - 2009

The World Trade Organization's Dispute Settlement Body grew out of decades of experience and the frustrations of … article discusses the historical development of the World Trade Organization's dispute resolution system. The first section … section addresses the instrument which inaugurates the World Trade Organization's current dispute settlement procedure and …

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To AB or Not to AB? Dispute Settlement in WTO Reform

Hoekman, Bernard; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 2020

Recent debates on the operation of the WTO’s dispute resolution mechanism have focused primarily on the Appellate Body (AB). We argue that this neglects the first-order issue confronting the rules-based trading system: sustaining the principle of de-politicized conflict resolution that is...

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Chapter 6. Dispute Settlement in the WTO : Mind Over Matter

Mavroidis, P.C. - 2016

to the WTO adjudicating fora, showing through their behavior that, if necessary, they would rather live in a world where … punishment is curbed, than in a world where punishment acts as deterrent. …

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Protectionism online : internet censorship and international trade law

Erixon, Fredrik; Hindley, Brian; Lee-Makiyama, Hosuk - 2009

Internet is a global market place. The rapid development of the Internet, and especially of Internet-based commerce, has largely taken place outside the standard trade-regulatory frameworks that cover most other forms of cross-border commerce. As the size of the Internet markets has grown, and...

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Future-proofing world trade in technology : turning the WTO IT Agreement (ITA) into the International Digital Economy Agreement (IDEA)

Lee-Makiyama, Hosuk - 2011

Agreement (ITA) in the World Trade Organization (WTO) have so far failed to re-negotiate the coverage of the ITA (concluded in …

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(When) does tit-for-tat diplomacy in trade policy pay off?

Dluhosch, Barbara; Horgos, Daniel - 2012

In international relations, short-run incentives for non-cooperation often dominate. Yet, (external) institutions for enforcing cooperation are hampered by national sovereignty, supposedly strengthening the role of selfenforcing mechanisms. This paper examines their scope with a focus on...

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Mapping of dispute settlement mechanisms in regional trade agreements : innovative or variations on a theme?

Chase, Claude; Yanovich, Alan; Crawford, Jo-Ann; Ugaz, … - 2013 - Manuscript date: 10 June 2013

Regional trade agreements (RTAs) have become an indelible feature of the international trading landscape. Most, if not all, RTAs contain provisions that establish procedures for resolving disputes among their signatory members. Yet, the design and functioning of these dispute settlement...

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The WTO dispute settlement system 1995 - 2010 : some descriptive statistics

Horn, Henrik; Johannesson, Louise; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 2011

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