The Million Dollar Question 'Standard of Review: Should the WTO Apply Differential Standards or Not'

Abstract

The Dispute settlement under the WTO has been a revolution in its own way, what the Dispute Settlement Understanding has done is facilitated a much better and efficient way of majority of the disputes' resolution. In the achievement of such a herculean end, it needed to give its panels considerable leeway in terms of differential standards being applied to the review by the panels under the DSU. The approach has somewhat changed over the past few years, the author here tries to outline the changing dimensions of the differential review under the WTO.