Trade, Law & Development Symposium on WTO Dispute Settlement

The journal Trade, Law and Development recently published its Special Issue on Dispute Settlement at the WTO (available here). I'm going to work with them to conduct an online symposium here on this blog.

Here's how it's going to work.  The symposium will comprise sets of 1 Moderator, 1 Reviewer, and the Author(s) themselves, for each of the articles. Each Moderator will introduce the assigned article, provide a short summary (approx. 500 words) and introduce the Author(s) and the Reviewer.

Following the introduction by the Moderator, the Reviewer who is assigned to review that article will hand in their comments (approx. 1000 words). After a period of one week, the Author(s) can give their reply to the comments of the Reviewer (approx. 1000 words).

For the sake of administrative simplicity, I'll be doing all of the actual posting myself.  However, I will indicate in the post who is the writer of the post (moderator, reviewer, or author).  Hopefully this will all go smoothly and be clear to everyone!

There are five articles, and this will all take place over the next five weeks.

As always, feel free to comment on the posts.

Below is the list of articles, authors, reviewers, and moderators:

 

 

Sr. No.	Title of Article	Author(s)	Reviewer	Moderator
1.	Transparency and Public Participation: A Report Card on WTO Transparency Mechanisms	Gabrielle Marceau & Mikella Hurley	Robert Wolfe	Prateek Bhattacharya
2.	Going Beyond Stereotypes: Participation of Developing Countries in WTO Dispute Settlement	Jan Bohanes & Fernanda Garza	Henry Gao	Shreya Munoth
3.	The Development of Standards of Appellate Review for Factual, Legal and Law Application Questions in WTO Dispute Settlement	Simon Lester	Matthias Oesch	Shashank P. Kumar
4.	Considering Development in the   Implementation of Panel and Appellate Body Reports	Sonia E. Rolland	Asif Qureshi	Yogesh Pai
5.	Epistemic Contests and the Legitimacy of the World Trade Organization: The Brazil–USA Cotton Dispute and the Incremental Balancing of Interests	Arthur Daemmrich	Joost Pauwelyn	Simon Lester