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21 Brown J. World Aff. 117 (2014-2015)
From Sunshine to a Common Agent: The Evolving Understanding of Transparency in the WTO

handle is hein.journals/brownjwa21 and id is 379 raw text is: From Sunshine to a Common Agent: The Evolving Understanding of Transparency in the WTO PETROS C. MAVROIDIS ROBERT WOLFE Professor of Law Professor in Policy Studies Columbia Law School Queen's University (Ontario) THE REAL JEWEL IN THE WTO's CROWN TRANSPARENCY OBLIGATIONS HAVE UNDERGONE SUBSTANTIAL transformations since the inception of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 117 1947. From an obligation to publish general laws affecting trade, the system now includes peer review by governments (in the form of monitoring and surveillance) and efforts to inform the public. These accomplishments are remarkable, but much remains to be done. Originally designed for a handful of developed countries, the global trading system now must provide an expanded knowledge base that benefits 160 member states, millions of economic actors, and hundreds of millions of citizens with inadequate resources to acquire information on their own. But that knowledge base remains incomplete. The role of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is often thought to be twofold-conducting formal rounds of negotiations and resorting to the dispute settlement system-but the third dimension of its work, which can be PETROS C. MAVROIDIS is Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, New York, currently on leave at the European University Institute in Florence. He has recently acted as chief reporter for the ALI project Prin- ciples of International Trade. His latest publication is Regulation ofInternational Trade (MIT Press, 2015). ROBERT WOLFE is Professor of the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. His recent publications include An Anatomy of Accountability at the WTO in Global Policy, and First Diagnose, Then Treat: What Ails the Doha Round? in World Trade Review. He is coeditor of Adapring Canadian Trade and Commerce Policies to New Global Realities (Institute for Research on Public Policy, forthcoming 2015). Copyright @ 2015 by the Brown Journal of WorldAfairs SPRING/SUMMER 2015 * VOLUME XXI, ISSUE II

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