WTO at 10: A Look at the Appellate Body

Institute of International Trade Law and Development -- Brazil
April 14, 2005

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The WTO at 10: A Look at the Appellate Body São Paulo, Brazil 15-17 May 2005 Organized by the Brazilian Institute of International Trade Law and Development (IDCID), in cooperation with the University of São Paulo (Law School and International Law Department) The São Paulo conference will be the second in the series of conferences being organized by certain academic institutions with which some of the Members of the Appellate Body are affiliated to commemorate the Tenth Anniversary of the WTO's Dispute Settlement System and the establishment of the Appellate Body. The conference will be conducted in English and will include panels on the following topics: The first years of the Appellate Body and the WTO Dispute Settlement System: a historical perspective

The WTO Appellate Body's role: a view from the academic and diplomatic communities The panel process and the Appellate Body: locus for legal and cultural convergence Jurisdiction and Interpretation: WTO dispute settlement in the international law context Agriculture and the WTO Dispute Settlement System Weaknesses and proposed improvements to the WTO Dispute Settlement System: an economic and market view Participation of Civil Society and the WTO Dispute Settlement System The following speakers have confirmed their participation: · Celso Amorim - Brazilian Minister of State for External Relations · Yasuhei Tanaguchi, Luiz Olavo Baptista, and Georges M. Abi-Saab - Members of the Appellate Body · James Bacchus and Julio Lacarte-Muró - former Members of the Appellate Body · Valerie Hughes - Director of the Appellate Body Secretariat · Tito Amaral de Andrade, Alberto do Amaral Júnior, Roberto Azevedo, Rubens Barbosa, Maristela Basso, Rafael Benke, Mauro Berenholc, Pedro Carmargo Neto, Umberto Celli Junior, Richard Chriss, José Alfredo Graça Lima, Celso Grisi, Cristian Espinosa, Marcos Jank, Celso Lafer, Luiz Felipe Lampreia, Victor Luiz do Prado, José Carlos de Magalhães, Gabrielle Marceau, Adolpho José Melfi, Werner Meng, Mario Mugnaini, Alice Palmer, Felix Peña, Eduardo Perez Motta, Marta Lucia Ramirez, Francisco Rezek, Miguel Rodriguez Mendoza, Hélène Ruiz-Fabri, Gregory Shaffer, Eduardo Silveira Marchi, Debra Steger, Vera Thorstensen, Raúl Vinuesa, Alan Yanovich. Further information about the conference, including registration procedures, is available at: www.idcid.org.br/wto/10.htm Email inquiries may be sent to: wtoat10@idcid.org.br. The first conference in the series was held in Stresa, Italy on 11-13 March 2005 (www.stresawtoat10.org). The third conference in the series will be held in October 2005 in Tokyo (Japan). Additionalconferences are scheduled for 2006 in Cairo (Egypt), Sydney (Australia) and New York (United States). Additional information about these conferences is available at www.wto.org/appellatebody.

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