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Panel Discussion: Implementation of WTO Rulings: The Role of Courts and Legislatures in the United States and Other Jurisdictions
Giorgio Sacerdoti, Thomas Aquilino, Jr, George Bermann, Donald McRae, Sharyn O’Halloran, Ernst-Ulrich Jetersmann
PROFESSOR SACERDOTI: Hello everybody. My name is Giorgio Sacerdoti and I am from Milan, Italy. I am currently a member of the Appellate Body of the WTO. This conference is the last of a cycle of five conferences organized by certain academic institutions with which some of us at the Appellate Body are affiliated. May I recall that the first one, which I organized with Bocconi University of Milan, was at Stresa in those beautiful hotels from one hundred years ago, and we are here to finish the conference cycle in a beautiful Italian palazzo in New York, so I am very pleased.
This session is about the implementation of WTO rulings, the role of courts, and legislatures in the United States and other jurisdictions. Here, you have a distinguished panel that will share their thoughts with us and...
About the Authors:
Giorgio Sacerdoti is a member of the WTO Appellate Body
Thomas Aquilino, Jr. is the Senior Judge of US Court of International Trade
George Bermann is the Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law and Walter Gellhorn Professor of Law at Columbia Law School
Donald McRae is the Hyman Soloway Chair of Business & Trade Law at University of Ottawa
Sharyn O'Halloran is the George Blumenthal Professor of Political Science & International & Public Affairs at Columbia University
Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann is a Professor of International & European Law at European University Institute