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The WTO: Governance, Dispute Settlement & Developing Countries
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Panel Discussion: The Dispute Settlement System in the Next Ten Years
Julio Lacarte Muró, Jane Bradley, Steve Charnovitz, Robert Howse, David Palmeter
AMBASSADOR LACARTE MURÓ: Good morning everybody. Welcome to the sixth session entitled “The Dispute Settlement System in the Next Ten Years.” We could call this the “crystal ball brigade.” Professor Merit E. Janow has brought together a number of well-known fortune tellers who are going to tell us what is going to happen with the WTO’s dispute settlement system over the next ten years. Firstly, we are going to give the floor to Professor Jane Bradley, who is an old GATT/WTO hand and was much engaged with the GATT/WTO in the past. She will tell us what is going to happen in the future.
PROFESSOR BRADLEY: Thank you very much, Ambassador Lacarte Muró, and thank you Professor Janow for including me, not only in this distinguished panel, but in these proceedings for the past two days. I should say that I am somewhat reluctant to speculate about the future of the WTO dispute settlement because my record for predictions in this area is far from perfect.
In May 1995, which was just months after the establishment of the WTO, I had the honor of being on a Council on Foreign Relations panel with the late Professor Hudec and the late Ambassador Joe Greenwald. The three of us were speaking to the Council’s study group on the...
About the Authors:
Julio Lacarte Muró is a Former Member and Chairman of the WTO Appellate Body
Jane Bradley is an Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director at the Institute of International Economic Law at Georgetown University Law Center
Steve Charnovitz is an Associate Professor at the George Washington University Law School
Robert Howse is an Alene & Allan F. Smith Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School
David Palmeter is Senior Counsel at Sidley Austin LLP