Friday, July 11, 2008

Janow, Donaldson, & Yanovich: The WTO: Governance, Dispute Settlement & Developing Countries

Merit E. Janow (Columbia Univ. - International and Public Affairs & Law; formerly, WTO Appellate Body), Victoria Donaldson (WTO Appellate Body Secretariat), & Alan Yanovich (WTO Appellate Body Secretariat) have published The WTO: Governance, Dispute Settlement & Developing Countries (Juris Publishing 2008). Contents include:
  • Pascal Lamy, The WTO Doha Development Agenda: Working for a Fairer Global Trading System
  • Susan Schwab, Doha: Our Generation’s Opportunity to Promote Economic Growth and Development
  • Peter Mandelson, The Politics of the World Trade Organization in Its Second Decade
  • Christine Lagarde, Managing the Future Challenges Facing the World Trade Organization: A European Perspective
  • Peter Sutherland, Leadership and Vision: Some Lessons from the Uruguay Round
  • Ernesto Zedillo, The World Trade Organization’s Biggest Problem at Ten: Surviving the Doha Round
  • Clayton Yeutter, The Doha Round: Salvageable? Or a Lost Cause?
  • Jagdish Bhagwat, The Uruguay Round: Its Lessons for Doha
  • Albert Fishlow, The Doha Round: Has It Now Expired?
  • Arvind Panagariya, Why the Prospects for a Doha Deal Are Not Bleak
  • Opening Dinner Roundtable. A World Leaders Forum Event – The Uruguay Round and the Doha Development; Agenda: What Have We Achieved? – Lee C. Bollinger, Merit E. Janow, Carla Hills, Clayton Yeutter, Peter Sutherland, Jagdish Bhagwati
  • Mari Elka Pangestu, The World Trade Organization and Developing Countries: An Indonesian Perspective
  • Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, How Can the World Trade Organization and the Multilateral Trading System Support the Development Goals of Low income Countries?
  • Joseph Stiglitz & Andrew Charlton, A Progressive Tariff Reduction Scheme
  • Patrick Low, Developing Countries and the World Trade Organization: What Are the Issues?
  • Sun Zhenyu, Decision-making in the World Trade Organization
  • Stuart Harbinson, Great Expectations, Hard Times: Dickensian Decision-making at the World Trade Organization?
  • Panel Discussion. Decision-making at the World Trade Organization: An Analysis of a Member-driven Organization – Merit E. Janow, Stuart Harbinson, Hyun-Chong Kim, Amina Mohamed, Mary Robinson, Sun Zhenyu
  • Paul Blustein, Dangers to the Trading System: The Real, The Hyped, and The Possibly Serendipitous
  • Seiichi Kondo, WTO Negotiations Under the Impact of Globalization: The Opportunity and Challenge of Multilateralism inthe Twenty-first Century
  • Panel Discussion. Reflections on the World Trade Organization in the Context of Economic Globalization – Grant Aldonas, Martin Wolf, Seiichi Kondo, Paul Blustein, Keith Rockwell, John Jackson
  • Julio Lacarte Muró, The First Years of the Appellate Body and the WTO Dispute Settlement System: A Historical Perspective
  • Frieder Roessler, The Scope of WTO Law Enforced Through WTO Dispute Settlement Procedure
  • Petros Mavroidis, Legal Eagles? The WTO Appellate Body’s First Ten Years
  • Werner Zdouc, Features of the Appellate Body That Have Defined Its Performance
  • Panel Discussion. Examining the Dispute Settlement System: How Has It Performed? – Yasuhei Taniguchi, John Jackson, Julio Lacarte Muró, Petros Mavroidis, George Bermann, Frieder Roessler, Werner Zdouc
  • William Davey, Expediting the Panel Process in WTO Dispute Settlement
  • Valerie Hughes, The Strengths, Weaknesses, and Future of WTO Appellate Review
  • Mitsuo Matsushita, A Review of Major WTO Jurisprudence
  • Andrew Stoler, Enhancing the Operation of the WTO Panel Process and Appellate Review: Lessons from Experience and a Focus on Transparency
  • David Unterhalter, The Burden of Proof in WTO Dispute Settlement
  • Yasuhei Taniguchi, Understanding the Concept of Prima Facie Proof in WTO Dispute Settlement
  • Panel Discussion. Lessons from Experience: Operation of the Panel Process and Appellate Review – Luiz O. Baptista, William Davey, Valerie Hughes, Mitsuo Matsushita, Andrew Stoler, John Weekes
  • Giorgio Sacerdoti, WTO Law and the "Fragmentation" of International Law: Specificity, Integration, Conflicts
  • José Alvarez, The Factors Driving and Constraining the Incorporation of International Law in WTO Adjudication
  • Robert Howse, The Use and Abuse of International Law in WTO Trade/Environment Litigation
  • Patricia Wald, An Outsider’s Look at the WTO Appellate Body
  • Pieter-Jan Kuijper, Does the World Trade Organization Prohibit Retorsions and Reprisals? Legitimate “Contracting Out” or “Clinical Isolation” Again?
  • Panel Discussion. WTO Case Law in an International Law Context – Georges Abi-Saab, José Alvarez, Florentino Feliciano, Martti Koskenniemi, Pieter-Jan Kuijper, Patricia Wald
  • Kyle Bagwell, Remedies in the World Trade Organization: An Economic Perspective
  • Gary Horlick & Judith Coleman, A Comment on Compliance with WTO Dispute Settlement Decisions
  • Bruce Wilson, Compliance by WTO Members with Adverse WTO Dispute Settlement Rulings
  • Alan Wolff, Remedy in WTO Dispute Settlement
  • Panel Discussion. Considering Remedies – Kyle Bagwell, Gary Horlick, Robert Lawrence, Bruce Wilson, Alan Wolff
  • David Palmeter, The WTO Dispute Settlement System in the Next Ten Years
  • Steve Charnovitz, Mapping the Law of WTO Accession
  • Panel Discussion. The Dispute Settlement System in the Next Ten Years – Julio Lacarte Muró, Jane Bradley, Steve Charnovitz, Robert Howse, David Palmeter
  • Sharyn O’Halloran, US Implementation of WTO Decisions
  • Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, Multi-level Judicial Trade Governance without Justice? On the Role of Domestic Courts in the WTO Legal and Dispute Settlement System
  • Robin Hansen & Donald McRae, Reconciling the International and the Domestic: The Reasonable Period of Time under Article 21.3 of the DSU
  • Panel Discussion. Implementation of WTO Rulings: The Role of Courts and Legislatures in the United States and Other Jurisdictions – Giorgio Sacerdoti, Thomas Aquilino, Jr, George Bermann, Donald McRae, Sharyn O’Halloran, Ernst-Ulrich Jetersmann