This review of WTO Panel and Appellate Body reports handed down in 2012 aims at covering the case law of the WTO through short but analytical examination of the most important final decisions of this year. The approach followed is that of reviewing all final decisions (Reports) of WTO Panels and...

This analytical but concise survey of WTO case law for 2015 is carried out within the framework of the PhD program in Legal Studies of the PhD school of Bocconi University (Milan). Giorgio Sacerdoti, professor of international law at Bocconi University and a former member of the WTO Appellate...

This Article provides an inside from of the transition from the GATT to the WTO, including the basic features of the system and the role of the Appellate Body as a judicial body within the WTO, as well as the relations between judicial and political bodies. IT reflects on the first ten years of...

This Article contributes to the discussion about the development of international trade regulation of state interventionism by situating the tensions that exist about the future design of subsidies and state enterprises treaty regulation in the broader context of current systemic challenges to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the success of the world trade organisation (WTO) dispute settlement system and its transferability to other fora. Design/methodology/approach – The paper compares the design and case law of trade and investment law, and seeks lessons for the...