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The WTO Appellate Body Crisis: How We Got Here and What Lies Ahead?

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The WTO Appellate Body Crisis: How We Got Here and What Lies Ahead?

Aditya Rathore and Ashutosh Bajpai

April 14, 2020 07:16:10 pm

The Appellate Body is an important element of the Dispute Settlement System of the World Trade Organization (WTO), hearing appeals against the findings of the panel established by the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB). The Appellate Body (AB) ideally consists of seven members including the Chairman. But on 10th December 2019, this body went into crisis [...]

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