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Peter Van den Bossche, Debating the Future of the World Trade Organization: Divergent Views on the 2005 Sutherland Report, Journal of International Economic Law, Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2005, Pages 759–768, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiel/jgi044
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It has become an annual tradition for trade officials, practitioners and scholars from all over the world to gather in London in May to discuss current issues in WTO law and policy. The Fifth Annual WTO Conference, organized jointly by the Institute of International Economic Law, the Journal of International Economic Law and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, was held from 17 to 19 May 2005 at Gray’s Inn, London. Elsewhere in this issue, Isabelle Van Damme reports in detail on most of the presentations and discussions held at the Conference. This article covers only the last session of the Conference which addressed the recent Report by the Consultative Board to the WTO Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi on ‘The Future of the WTO: Addressing Institutional Challenges in the New Millennium’ (hereinafter, the ‘Sutherland Report’ or ‘Report’). 1 This session was chaired by Thomas Cottier (World Trade Institute, University of Berne). Joost Pauwelyn (Duke University), Deborah Cass (London School of Economics), and Donald Regan (University of Michigan) each presented a paper, while Peter Van den Bossche (Maastricht University) and John Jackson (Georgetown University and one of the authors of the Sutherland Report) acted as commentators.