Reporters for World Trade Law Meet in Philadelphia

On October 24 and 25 the eight Reporters for the Institute’s innovative new project on World Trade Law met for the first time at ALI headquarters in Philadelphia to review and criticize the project’s initial work product. The first phase of the project will consist of annual papers analyzing, from both a legal and an economic perspective, that year’s output of decisions by the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization. To that end, each decision will be an analyzed in an interdisciplinary fashion by a two-Reporter team, each consisting of a lawyer and an economist. The second phase will be eventually to use these individual case studies as the basis for developing Principles and perhaps even a Restatement of WTO Law. The Chief Reporters are Petros C. Mavroidis, Professor of Law at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland and Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School, and Henrik Horn, Professor of International Economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies of Stockholm University.

Pictured above: Co-Chief Reporter Mavroidis and Gene M. Grossman, Economics Department, Princeton University; center: Joseph H.H. Weiler, New York University School of Law; Damien Neven, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva; and Co-Chief Reporter Horn; bottom: Merit E. Janow, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, and Robert Staiger, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin.