Here's a link to an article, in a publication called Engineering News, about recent appointee AB David Unterhalter. Among other things, he discussed his goals as an AB Member:
But what are his personal ambitions arising from the WTO appointment? “What I would hope, personally, to have achieved at the end of my time in Geneva is that I have left some kind of mark on the jurice prudence of the WTO, which I can be proud of and, hopefully, South Africa can be proud of too.”
He also talked about the work involved:
But the prestigious appointment also means that Unterhalter will have to tailor his South African practice to the demands arising from Geneva. In fact, there are clear time-defined parameters in which the Appellate Body operates, which means its cases have to take precedence. “It works out that a good deal of preparation on the cases can be done at home and then I spend spurts of two to three weeks in Geneva. So it does not require a relocation to Geneva, but just a slightly peripatetic lifestyle,” the 48-year-old Unterhalter quips. He is, thus, optimistic about prospects of continuing an active, if somewhat rescaled, practice in South Africa.
