作者:King, Alyssa S.; Bookman, Pamela K.
作者单位:Queens University - Canada; Fordham University
摘要:Around the world, domestic courts focused on commercial disputes hire foreign judges. The practice seems to resemble arbitration, but is also rooted in colonialism. These traveling judges are predominantly retired English judges hired by small, market-dominant jurisdictions, like Hong Kong or Dubai. The judges' identities reveal efforts to harness business preferences for English common law into domestic court systems. While judges aspire to spread the rule of law, local politics may dictate t...
作者:Pauwelyn, Joost; Pelc, Krzysztof
作者单位:McGill University
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 administra...
作者:Jia, Bing Bing; Yu Mincai, Jia
作者:Nugraha, Ignatius Yordan; Regules, Juncal Montero; Vrancken, Merel
作者单位:Hasselt University