Bashar H. Malkawi, Decisions of MPIA Arbitral Panels and their Value

The multilateral trading system has served the world remarkably well over the past seventy years, as it has

during the World Trade Organization’s (“WTO”) twenty-five years in existence. On average, global incomes have

risen dramatically, and the number of those living in poverty has declined sharply.[1] There is, nevertheless,

criticism of the WTO.[2] One area for this criticism is the WTO Appellate Body (“AB”).