"The new trade court was designed as an independent judiciary whose authority would be accepted by sovereign nations all over the world. It has no precise parallel. Its establishment was “close to a miracle,” said Van den Bossche, a longtime WTO judge... wsj.com/articles/will-…
in a wistful speech earlier this year marking the end of his term and anticipating the demise of the court itself. “Those working in other fields of international law looked on with envy.”"
This is true! And same of ISDS. And both now are in the process of being dismantled. Imagine what could have happened if either had harnessed their wagons to a more diverse range of political values politico.com/agenda/story/2…
