What if we go to Arbitration? The Interim Multi-Party Arbitration Agreement: Analysis and Loopholes
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https://doi.org/10.46631/Giuristi.2022.v3n5.08Keywords:
World Trade Organization, arbitration, dispute settlement, Appellate BodyAbstract
In December 2019, the period of two member of the Appellate Body expired. Consequently, the Appellate Body became an inoperative institution. In this context, a group of Members of the WTO negotiated an alternative mechanism to settle their disputes: “The Interim Multi-Party Arbitration Agreement”. This paper analyses the functioning of this instrument, evinces some of the aspects not resolve by this instrument and explains that the reform of the dispute settlement system of the WTO is part of a bigger problem related to the need to reform the WTO.
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