This workshop undertook a yearly analysis of all case law by the adjudicating bodies of the WTO (un-appealed Panel reports as well as Appellate Body reports). The Reporters’ Studies for 2016 has covered a wide range of WTO law ranging from classic trade in goods issues to trade in services. Each of the cases was jointly evaluated by an economist and a lawyer, both well-known experts in the field of trade law and international economics. The Reporters critically reviewed the jurisprudence of WTO adjudicating bodies and evaluated whether the ruling ‘made sense’ from an economic as well as legal point of view, and if not, whether the problem lied in the interpretation of the law or the law itself. The Studies did not always covered all issues discussed in a case, but they sought to discuss both the procedural and the substantive issues that form the ‘core’ of the dispute.

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