Arthur Appleton

Expertise

Regions

• Africa
• Middle East
• Southeast Asia
• United States
• Western Europe

Topics

• International Law
• International Courts and Arbitration
• International Trade Theory and Policy

Languages

• French

Background and Education

Partner, Appleton Luff International Lawyers; Senior Trade and Investment Consultant, World Bank; Consultant, US Commercial Law Development Program ; Visiting Faculty and Board Member, World Trade Institute, University of Bern (from 2004); Visiting Faculty, International Economic Law and Policy Programme (IELPO), University of Barcelona (from 2009). Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Legal Issues of Economic Integration, Journal of the Europa Institute and the Amsterdam Center for International Law; member of the Advisory Committee, The Latin American Journal of International Trade Law; List of Experts on Trade and Sustainable Development (various FTA arbitration panels). He has recently lectured in Austria, Brazil, India, Kenya, Spain, and Vietnam. PhD and DES, University of Geneva (Graduate Institute); JD, University of Maryland School of Law; BA, William & Mary.

Publications: Selected Publications include: Business Guide to Trade and Investment: Vol. 1, International Trade, with P. Macrory, eds. (ICC, 2017); "The Swiss Also Have a Private Health Care System. But Theirs Works." Fortune.com, 26 September 2017; "The WTO Appellate Body – Pathways and Pitfalls," in Judging the State in International Trade and Investment Law, L. Choukroune, ed., (Springer, 2016); "The US – Shrimp Appeal: 20 Years On," in WTO Disputes @Twenty: Insiders'' Reflections on India''s Participation, Abhijit Das, ed., (Springer, 2016); "Product labelling: What has the Appellate Body wrought?" (ICTSD-BioRes, 2015); "PIL and IEL: Will Seal Deaths Resurrect the Dream of International Legal Coherence?" Questions of International Law, Zoom-in 9 (2014); "National Treatment Under the TBT Agreement," in The Principle of National Treatment in International Economic Law, A. Sanders ed. (Edward Elgar, 2014); "Conformity Assessment," in Research Handbook on the WTO and Technical Barriers to Trade, Epps and Trebilcock eds. (Edward Elgar, 2013); "Product Labelling 15 Years On: The Role of the Judiciary," in Reflections of the Constitutionalisation of International Economic Law, et al eds. (Brill, 2013); "Forum Selection in Trade Litigation," (ICTSD, 2013); "Certificates of Free Sale: Who is Being Protected from Whom?" with C. Dordi, in Journal of International Economic Law (2011); The World Trade Organization: A Legal, Political and Economic Analysis (3 volumes), with Macrory and Plummer, eds. (Spinger, 2005). A full list of publications can be found here