The WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism

This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the Dispute Settlement Mechanism (DSM) by bringing together contributions from legal scholars and political scientists. Most of the authors belong to a tightly knit legal epistemic community, trained at the University of São Paulo and at the top-ranked research and policy centers on WTO law in Europe.

Offers a multidisciplinary approach to the Dispute Settlement System

Alberto do Amaral Júnior, Luciana Maria de Oliveira Sá Pires, and Cristiane Lucena Carneiro, Introduction.- Part I Assessment: Rubens Ricupero, WTO in crisis: déjà vu all over again or terminal agony?.- Celso de Tarso Pereira, Speaking up in the WTO: Brazil's Voice in the Dispute Settlement Body.- Jacqueline Spolador Lopes, Dispute Settlement System of the WTO: a Powerful Weapon for Developing Countries.- Renata Vargas Amaral and Welber Barral, Developing Countries: Whether Legal (and Costly) Settlement of Disputes is Better than Political Settlement.- Part II Substantive Matters: Alberto do Amaral Júnior and Cynthia Kramer, WTO as a Self-Limited Regime: the Case of Article XX of GATT.- Umberto Celli Junior, The Impact of WTO Case Law on the Use of Local Content Requirements.- Vera Helena Thorstensen and Andreia Costa Vieira, WTO Case Law on TBT and SPS: It is Time to Review Some Concepts.- Michelle Ratton Sanchez Badin and Marina Yoshimi Takitani, Are ISO/IEC rules the odds out of the WTO Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement?.- Cristiane Lucena Carneiro, Alternative Dispute Resolution and the WTO.- Paulo Estivallet de Mesquita, Litigation and negotiation in the WTO: Is litigation the continuation of negotiation by other means?.- Daniel Damásio Borges, Countermeasures in the WTO and the Principle of Proportionality: A Developing Country's Perspcective.- Vera Kanas Grytz and Carolina Jezler Müller, Sequencing: ad hoc Solutions to a Systemic Problem.- Carla Amaral de Andrade Junqueira Canero, The Interpretive Technique of the WTO Appellate Body.- Fernanda Manzano Sayeg, The Dispute Settlement Body and the GATS.- Part III WTO Cases and Conflicts: Peter-Tobias Stoll, The WTO Dispute Settlement System and Regional Trade Tribunals: the Potential for Conflict and Solutions.- Luciana Maria de Oliveira Sá Pires and Vivian Daniele Rocha Gabriel, The Eminent Conflict between the WTO DSB and the Proposed International Investment Court to dealing with Investment Agreements.- Luciano Mazza de Andrade and Luiz Fellipe Flores Schmidt, The Cotton Case: Litigation, Retaliation, Negotiation.- Christiane Silva Aquino Bonomo, Reshaping International Trade with the WTO Dispute Settlement: The Sugar Case (DS 265/266/283).- Xavier Fernández-Pons and Carolina Lembo, The Case EC - Seal Products: the WTO Dispute Settlement System before a "Trilemma" between Free Trade, Animal Welfare and Rights of Indigenous Peoples.- Flavio Marega, The Retreaded Tyres Case in the WTO: an Important Multilateral Achievement by Brazil.- Letícia Frazão Alexandre de Moraes Leme, Flexibilities under Article 39.3 of the TRIPS Agreement: Protection of Pharmaceutical Test Data and the Case of Brazil.- Marcus Vinicius da Costa Ramalho, Flying over Uncharted Territory: the Brazil-Canada Regional Aircraft Disputes in the WTO.- Daniel Roberto Pinto, Not just about Embraer: a Brazilian view of the Brazil-Canada Aircraft Disputes at the WTO.