International Trade Law

guide to the legal interpretation and application of the Agreements by the WTO Appellate Body, WTO dispute settlement panels and other WTO bodies. Coverage is through the end of December 2004.

This volume is concerned with the instruments drawn up by the members of the World Trade Organization or drawn up under their auspices since the inception of the Organization and represents a consolidated compilation of these data for each instrument.

Provides, among other things, documents that are called "Dispute Settlement Commentaries" or DSCs that summarize the Panel and Appellate Body reports, along with some editorial comment. They can greatly reduce the time needed to understand the rulings of either the Panel or AB (for ex. a DSC for a 3,000+ page case was only 1,000 pages, or so.)

Good explanation of the process, approximate time periods for disputes, etc.

By William J. Davey, published in the Journal of International Economic Law, volume 8(1): 17-50.