By Andrew D. Mitchell
Rules play an important position in any dispute payment process, and the realm alternate association (WTO) isn't any exception. notwithstanding, WTO Panels and the Appellate physique were too timid in utilizing ideas, occasionally keeping off their use whilst applicable and at different instances utilizing them with no totally acknowledging that they're doing so. possibly extra worryingly, those our bodies usually fail to delve deeply adequate into rules. they have a tendency to miss key questions akin to the felony foundation for utilizing a given precept, no matter if the main is getting used in an interpretative demeanour or as appropriate legislation and the which means of the main in public foreign legislation. This e-book establishes a framework for addressing those questions. using this kind of framework may still allay fears and misconceptions in regards to the use of ideas and make sure that they're utilized in a justifiable demeanour, enhancing the standard of dispute cost within the WTO.
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Appellate Body Report, EC – Chicken Cuts, [142]–[147]; Appellate Body Report, EC – Export Subsidies on Sugar, [173]–[174], [186]; Appellate Body Report, US – Gambling, [176], [179], [182]. , Appellate Body Report, EC – Export Subsidies on Sugar, [223]; Appellate Body Report, US – Upland Cotton, [623], [636]. ), The EU, the WTO and the NAFTA: Toward a Common Law of International Law (2000) 35, 54. Ibid. 52–3. 12 Appellate Body Report, EC – Export Subsidies on Sugar, [304], [307], [321]. 4 introduction For Members such as the United States, the inclusion of non-WTO law in WTO disputes may raise longstanding fears of overreaching by Panels and the Appellate Body.
Osiro, ‘GATT/WTO Necessity Analysis: Evolutionary Interpretation and its Impact on the Authority of Domestic Regulation’ (2002) 29 Legal Issues of Economic Integration 123; Axel Desmedt, ‘Proportionality in WTO Law’ (2001) 4 Journal of International Economic Law 441. 22 Primarily, these focus on the principles within the WTO while paying little attention to their definition or their meaning under international law, and they are largely concerned with the operation of the principle in question rather than its implications for the use of principles in WTO dispute settlement more generally.
I would also like to thank the following people, who read earlier drafts of various chapters and provided useful comments and suggestions: Kerry Allbeury, Erica Badocco, Gavin Goh, Matthew Harding, David Heaton, Gabrielle Marceau, Katie Mitchell, Hunter Nottage, Ana Novik, Alexander rola, Arun Venkataraman, Tania Voon, Orakhelashvili, Fernando Pie li lii acknowledgements Alan Yanovich, and Werner Zdouc. I thank Melbourne Law School for providing research support funds in the final stages of my work, which permitted me to hire Elizabeth Sheargold, who provided enormous assistance with Chapter 6 and, together with Stephanie Chu, ensured that the book manuscript was finally dispatched to Cambridge University Press.