The World Trade Organization 20 Years On: Global Governance by Judiciary

Wto: from Trade Organization to Node of Global Governance

Since its foundation ten years ago, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has become the focus of debate about governance of the world economy. It has been denounced by its critics and lauded by its supporters as a standard-bearer for free trade. In practice, it has become a central battle-ground over fairness and justice in a wide range of global economic regulation issues. The current suspension...

The World Trade Organization and global fisheries sustainability

The World Trade Organization and global fisheries sustainability Ussif Rashid Sumaila a,∗, Ahmed Khan a, Reg Watson a, Gordon Munro a,b, Dirk Zeller a, Nancy Baron c, Daniel Pauly a a Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4 b Department of Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4 c COMPASS, National Cent...

Development of International Trade in Health Services in the Legal System of World Trade Organization

The World Trade Organization, as one of the youngest international organizations following its 50th activity of predecessor means the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in the Multilateral Trade System, through the establishment of a General Agreement on Trade in Services, regulated the domain of International Trade in services and by designating Integrated legal framework for the advanceme...

Key Challenges Facing the World Trade Organization

Settling disputes at the World Trade Organization

Louise Johannesson (2018): Settling disputes at the World Trade Organization. Örebro Studies in Economics 38 This cumulative dissertation consists of five self-contained essays, all of which are closely focused around issues that concern the WTO dispute settlement mechanism (DSM). In Essay 1, we describe salient features of the DSM using a unique data set. We observe a spike in new disputes in ...