Krzysztof Pelc
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Krzysztof Pelc is Lester B. Pearson Professor International Relations at Oxford University
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Have WTO Members Successfully Circumvented the US’ Blockade of the Appellate Body? (and How Would We Know?)
February 13, 2024
Krzysztof Pelc
On January 26th, in what has become a repeat performance of global governance kabuki, Guatemala put forth a proposal on behalf of 130 World Trade Organization members to relaunch the selection process for Appellate Body adjudicators. It was the 73rd time it was doing so, and for the 73rd time, the US exercised its right to block the…
Does It Matter Who Writes Legal Rulings? It Depends.
Does it matter whether rulings delivered by international tribunals are truly written by the adjudicators appointed to the case, as opposed to the permanent staff of a legal bureaucracy working in the background? In his Reply to our EJIL article, ‘WTO Rulings and the Veil of Anonymity’, Armin Steinbach claims there is nothing untoward about unnamed…
The WTO Secretariat’s ‘Open Secret’: Unpacking the Controversy
Over the past two years, we have had the opportunity to present the findings from our EJIL article, ‘WTO Rulings and the Veil of Anonymity’, to a number of audiences spanning fields from international law to political science and quantitative methods. Though the article makes a number of claims about transparency in judicial settings, the design of…
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Have WTO Members Successfully Circumvented the US’ Blockade of the Appellate Body? (and How Would We Know?)
February 13, 2024
Krzysztof Pelc
On January 26th, in what has become a repeat performance of global governance kabuki, Guatemala put forth a proposal on behalf of 130 World Trade Organization members to relaunch the selection process for Appellate Body adjudicators. It was the 73rd time it was doing so, and for the 73rd time, the US exercised its right to block the…
The WTO Secretariat’s ‘Open Secret’: Unpacking the Controversy
Over the past two years, we have had the opportunity to present the findings from our EJIL article, ‘WTO Rulings and the Veil of Anonymity’, to a number of audiences spanning fields from international law to political science and quantitative methods. Though the article makes a number of claims about transparency in judicial settings, the design of…
Does It Matter Who Writes Legal Rulings? It Depends.
Does it matter whether rulings delivered by international tribunals are truly written by the adjudicators appointed to the case, as opposed to the permanent staff of a legal bureaucracy working in the background? In his Reply to our EJIL article, ‘WTO Rulings and the Veil of Anonymity’, Armin Steinbach claims there is nothing untoward about unnamed…