Revisiting the Appellate Body

More than once, I have written on my personal experiences as a member of the Appellate Body. I did this for the first time a few months after the end of my WTO mandate in December 2001, while I was still teaching at the Robert Schumann Centre of the European University Institute in Florence. In writing this contribution, more than a decade later, I do not want to change anything with respect to these earlier insights. They seem to me to be as valid today as they were when I was still closer to the extraordinary experience of six years ‘on the bench’ of the Appellate Body, the most productive and efficient quasi-judicial economic dispute settlement organism in the world.