WHO GUARDS THE GUARDIANS OF THE SYSTEM? THE ROLE OF THE SECRETARIAT IN WTO DISPUTE SETTLEMENT

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Pauwelyn, Joost; Pelc, Krzysztof
• 署名单位: McGill University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-9300
• DOI: 10.1017/ajil.2022.20
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 534-566
• 关键词: international courts; legitimacy; REFLECTIONS; POLITICS; lawyers; RULE; LAW

摘要

For all the attention paid to the panelists and Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Secretariat plays an overlooked and increasingly important role in the dispute settlement mechanism (DSM), including in selecting panelists, writing issue papers for adjudicators, providing economic expert advice, participating in internal deliberations, and drafting actual rulings. This Article argues that, given these functions, the DSM is better understood to be a sui generis administrative review process than it is a World Trade Court.