Keynes and Bown talk with former WTO Appellate Body member Jennifer Hillman (Georgetown Law) about WTO dispute settlement. They describe the procedural, philosophical, and judicial complaints the United States has with the current way of addressing trade frictions, potential solutions to those problems, and how the American refusal to appoint new Appellate Body members could soon destroy the functionality of the entire multilateral system of enforcement.
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- Robert McDougall. 2018. Crisis in the WTO: Restoring the WTO Dispute Settlement Function. CIGI Papers No. 194.
- Rachel Brewster. 2014. Pricing Compliance: When Formal Remedies Displace Reputational Sanctions. Harvard International Law Journal.
- Jeffrey Dunoff and Mark Pollack. 2017. The Judicial Trilemma. American Journal of International Law.
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- Gary Clyde Hufbauer. 2011. WTO Judicial Appointments: Bad Omen for the Trading System. PIIE Real Time Issues Watch, 13 June.
