RT Article
T1 Comparing WTO panelists and ICSID arbitrators
JF Oñati Socio-Legal Series
VO 1
IS 4
SP 1
OP 25
A1 Costa, José Augusto Fontoura 1968-
LA English
YR 2011
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1689292822
AB Who are people who make the decisions in trade and investment dispute settlement systems? In order to describe and analyze investment arbitrators and trade panelists, the whole populations of people nominated to ICSID’s tribunals and committees as well as to WTO Panels from 1995 to 2009 were studied, considering their specialization in law, and their career backgrounds as public servants, academics or private professionals. Applying Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of legal fields, the data suggested that both systems produce legitimacy but in quite different ways and, interestingly, that the one more similar to domestic legal systems takes that form due to political forces, not by an incremental process powered by people with legal backgrounds.
K1 World Trade Organization
K1 Internationale Gerichtsbarkeit
K1 International legal fields
K1 Investment arbitration
K1 Dispute settlement systems
DO 10.15496/publikation-38241