This WTO Case Review is the 15th in our annual series on substantive international trade adjudications issued by the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization. Each Review explains and comments on Appellate Body reports adopted by the WTO Dispute Settlement Body during the preceding...

This WTO Case Review is the 19th in our annual series on substantive international trade adjudications issued by the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization. Each Review explains and comments on Appellate Body Reports adopted by the WTO Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) during the preceding...

How do Muslim countries treat importation of goods that Islamic Law (Sharı'a) considers Haram (forbidden), namely, alcoholic beverages and pork products? Why do they do so? What might Muslim countries do, in accordance with the rules of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and...

This 2010 WTO Case Review is the eleventh in an annual series analyzing the substantive international trade adjudications issued by the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization under the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Understanding. Each Review explains and comments in detail on the Appellate...

This WTO Case Review is the fifth in an annual series on the substantive international trade adjudications rendered by the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Appellate Body. Each Review explains and comments on the Appellate Body reports adopted by the Dispute Settlement Body during the preceding...

This WTO Case Review is the fourth in an annual series on the substantive international trade adjudications rendered by the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Appellate Body. Each Review explains and comments on the Appellate Body reports adopted by the Dispute Settlement Body during the preceding...

This is the second in an annual series of articles reviewing the "reports" (decisions) of the Appellate Body, the highest judicial entity of the World Trade Organization, in this instance covering the reports adopted by the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body during 2001. Since its inception in 1995,...

In the six and a half years since the World Trade Organization was created, the WTO's Appellate Body has become perhaps the most effective, and certainly the most prolific, international adjudicatory body. It has issued numerous "reports" (decisions) applying and interpreting various provisions...

This WTO Case Review is the twelfth in our annual series on substantive international trade adjudications issued by the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization. Each Review explains and comments on Appellate Body reports adopted by the WTO Dispute Settlement Body during the preceding...

This is a third in an annual series of articles reviewing the "reports" (decisions) of the Appellate Body, the highest judicial entity of the World Trade Organization. Since its inception in 1995, the Appellate Body has issued more than fifty reports, currently at a rate of eight or nine per...