Crisis at the WTO Is the Blocking of Appointments to the WTO Appellate Body by the United States Legally Justified?

Since 2017, the United States has blocked all appointments to the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO), thereby threatening to destroy the WTO's dispute settlement system, one of the most active dispute settlement systems in international law and a central pillar of the multilat...

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Main Author: Lehne, Jens
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin; Bern Carl Grossmann Verlag 2019
Series:sui generis
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