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52 Geo. Wash. Int'l L. Rev. 219 (2020)
Where Are the Least Developed Countries and Small Developing State Complainants in the World Trade Organization's Dispute Settlement Body?

handle is hein.journals/gwilr52 and id is 247 raw text is: WHERE ARE THE LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES AND SMALL DEVELOPING STATE COMPLAINANTS IN THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION'S DISPUTE SETTLEMENT BODY? MD. RIZWANUL ISLAM* AND FARHAAN UDDIN AHMED** ABSTRACT This Article attempts to understand the lack of Least Developed Coun- tries (LDC)s and small developing Member States' participation as com- plainants in the World Trade Organization (WTO) Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) by undertaking the case study of the only LDC initiated dispute in the DSB: India - Anti-Dumping. This Article enumerates and analyzes the challenges that LDCs and other small developing states face when deciding to pursue claims in the DSB, while pursuing the same and the consequences of pursuing such claims in the DSB. This Article then recommends pragmatic reforms and other practical measures which may be undertaken to ease and incentivize the participation of LDCs and other small developing Member States in the dispute settle- ment process of the W TO. I. INTRODUCTION While some analysts have expressed trepidation about the increasing judicialization of the World Trade Organization (WTO), most trade analysts view the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) and its process as one of the most significant improvements from the pre-1995 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) era. The DSB has been labeled the crown jewel of the WTO system.1 Some have suggested that the various administra- tive bodies of the WTO-committees, working parties, and review bodies-play a role as important as the formal dispute settlement * Associate Professor, Department of Law, North South University; Ph.D. 2011, Mac- quarie University; L.L.M. 2006, National University of Singapore; L.L.B. 2004, University of Dhaka. The author may be contacted at rizwanuli@u.nus.edu. ** Lecturer in Public International Law, School of Law, BRAC University; L.L.M. 2016, University of Cambridge; L.L.B. 2014, BRAC University. The authors would like to thank the members of the Editorial Board for their helpful comments and suggestions. The author may be contacted at farhaan@cantab.net. 1. Sungjoon Cho, Of the World Trade Court's Burden, 20 EUR. J. INT'L L. 675, 676 (2009). 219

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