The Appellate Body of the WTO and Its Reform

Chapter 1 Introduction: Let the Jewel in the Crown Shine Again

Chapter 2 Between “Member-Driven Governance” and “Judicialization”: Constitutional and Judicial Dilemmas in the World Trading System

Chapter 3 Reforming the Appellate Body

Chapter 4 The AB Crisis as Symptomatic of the WTO’s Foundational Defects or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AB

Chapter 5 The Impending Demise of the WTO Appellate Body: From Centrepiece to Historical Relic?

Chapter 6 WTO Appellate Body Overreach and the Crisis in the Making: A View from the South

Chapter 7 Why the WTO Adjudicatory Crisis Will Not Be Easily Solved: Defining and Responding to “Judicial Activism”

Chapter 8 A Proper Balance Between WTO’s Members-Driven Nature and the Appellate Body’s Role as an Adjudicator—Careful Exercise of Judicial Activism

Chapter 9 The Judicial Style of the Appellate Body

Chapter 10 Interpretative Authority of the Appellate Body: Replies to the Criticism by the United States

Chapter 11 Judicial Economy and Advisory Opinions of the Appellate Body–Potential Reform of Article 17.12 of the DSU

Chapter 12 The Use of Panel Process to Improve the Function of the Appellate Body: A Proposal to Utilize the Expert Review Group

Chapter 13 Disruptive Construction or Constructive Destruction? Reflections on the Appellate Body Crisis

Chapter 14 WTO Appellate Body at Cross Roads: Options and Alternatives

Chapter 15 Appointment and Reappointment of the Appellate Body Members: Judiciary or Politics

Chapter 16 Should Appellate Body Members Work Full Time?

Chapter 17 The WTO Appellate Body as a Trailblazer—Facilitation of Appellate Mechanism Discussion in Other International Courts

Chapter 18 WTO AB as a Model for Other Adjudicatory Bodies—The Case of EU’s Investment Court System