Dispute Settlement at the WTO The Developing Country Experience [Paperback]

An evaluation of the experiences of individual developing countries in developing mechanisms to access the WTO legal system.This evaluation of the experiences of developing countries in developing mechanisms to access the WTO legal system uses case studies from Africa, Asia and South America to analyse what has been done and what can still be done to build the capacity to use WTO law to their advantage.This evaluation of the experiences of developing countries in developing mechanisms to access the WTO legal system uses case studies from Africa, Asia and South America to analyse what has been done and what can still be done to build the capacity to use WTO law to their advantage.This examination of the law in action of WTO dispute settlement takes a developing-country perspective. Providing a bottom-up assessment of the challenges, experiences and strategies of individual developing countries, it assesses what these countries have done and can do to build the capacity to deploy and shape the WTO legal system, as well as the daunting challenges that they face. Chapters address developing countries of varying size and wealth, including China, India, Brazil, Argentina, Thailand, South Africa, Egypt, Kenya and Bangladesh. Building from empirical work by leading academics and practitioners, this book provides a much needed understanding of how the WTO dispute settlement system actually operates behind the scenes for developing countries.The law-in-action of the WTO: the developing country experience Ricardo Mel?ndez-Ortiz and Gregory Shaffer; Introduction David Evans and Gregory Shaffer; Part I. Case Studies from South America: 1. Winning at the WTO: the development of a trade policy community within Brazil Gregory Shaffer, Michelle Ratton Sanchez and Barbara Rosenberg; 2. Argentina's experience with WTO dispute settlement: development of national capacity and the use of in-house lawyers Jos? L. P?rez Gabilondo; Part II. Case Studies from Asia: 3. China's experience and l1