Marc Busch

Eric Reinhardt, Greg Shaffer and I recently completed a survey of WTO members.  One of the questions we asked each delegation concerned the sources of advantage in dispute settlement for the most powerful members. Fully 88 percent of the respondents answered that the advantage held by the largest members in

The conventional wisdom in the GATT days was that complainants requested consultations under Article XXII when they wanted to attract third parties and negotiate, but under Article XXIII:1 when they did not want third parties intervening and didn't especially want to negotiate.  These days, it appears that