TY - GEN AU - Lehne,Jens TI - Crisis at the WTO : Is the Blocking of Appointments to the WTO Appellate Body by the United States Legally Justified? SN - 2019.94115941 PY - 2019/// CY - Berlin; Bern PB - Carl Grossmann Verlag KW - Law KW - bicssc KW - International law KW - International organisations & institutions KW - International Law KW - WTO Law KW - Recht KW - Völkerrecht KW - WTO-Recht N1 - Open Access N2 - Since 2017, the United States has blocked all appointments to the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO), thereby threatening to destroy the WTO's dispute settlement system, one of the most active dispute settlement systems in international law and a central pillar of the multilateral trading system. The United States justifies its blockage with allegations of judicial overreach, claiming that the Appellate Body in its jurisprudence has not complied with the WTO treaties UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24338/1/CG_978394115941.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24338/1/CG_978394115941.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24338/1/CG_978394115941.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31125 ER -