Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2008
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2307/20456639
Abstract
This article provides a critical assessment of the corpus of law that the adjudicating bodies of the World Trade Organization (WTO) – the Appellate Body (AB) and panels – have used since the organization was established on January 1, 1995. After presenting a taxonomy of WTO law, I move to discern, and to provide a critical assessment of, the philosophy of the WTO adjudicating bodies, when called to interpret it. In discussing the law that WTO adjudicating bodies have used, I distinguish between sources of WTO law and interpretative elements. This distinction will be explicated in part I below. Part II provides a taxonomy of the sources of WTO law, and part III a taxonomy of the interpretative elements used to illuminate those sources. Part IV concludes.
Disciplines
Courts | International Law | International Trade Law | Law
Recommended Citation
Petros C. Mavroidis,
No Outsourcing of Law? WTO Law as Practiced by WTO Courts,
102
Am. J. Int'l L.
421
(2008).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/2618
Comments
© 2008 Cambridge University Press. Originally published in the American Journal of International Law, Vol. 102, p. 421, 2008.