Burning down the house? : the appellate body in the centre of the WTO crisis

Publication date: 19 January 19, 2021Following months of refusal by the United States to agree to new appointments to the World Trade Organization's Appellate Body (AB) as the terms of appointees expired, in mid-December 2019 the number of sitting AB members dropped to one. Since appeals require at least three AB members, the WTO appeals function became essentially defunct