Wto Dispute Settlement Mechanism The Appellate Study

WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism is considered to be the unique, novel and complex dispute settlement system in current international economic organizations. Practice in over 7 years has testified that it is much effective in dispute settlement. Success in WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism is mostly attributable to its establishment of the Appellate Review. It is a kind of creativity in international law to establish the Appellate Review. The Symbol of the Appellate Review in WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism is the Standing Appellate Body which is set up to check up the decision made by the panel. This article expounds comprehensively and completely the concrete rules of the Appellate Review in WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism. On the basis of this, it is analytically and profoundly compared with the appellate review system in domestic court and international court in an aspect of comparative law. The article carefully analyses the Practical effect and function of the Appellate Review in WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism. At last a realistic insufficiency and imperfectibility is pointed out and some counter- measures are offered.The whole article is composed of 6 sections. The first section is the Preface, which Points out the necessity and practical meanings of the study of the Appellate Review in WTO DisputeSettlement Mechanism.The Second Section gives a brief account of the Appellate Review in WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism, and analyses systematically the concrete rules of it. The third section offers a horizontal comparison between the Appellate Review in WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism and the appellate review in other dispute settlement mechanism.The fourth section is about the positive impact of the appellate review on WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism. It analyses the effects and value and function caused by the operation of the Appellate Review in WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism in that 7 years.The last section points out the in sufficiency and offers the counter- measures. The concluding remarks sum up the whole article and prospect the future trend of the Appellate Review in WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism.