Impartiality and Legitimacy in the International Judiciary: The Case of GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement Reform

• In Event: Establishing Legitimacy Through Institutions and Public Opinion

Brief Overview

Leveraging a judicialization reform that was implemented in the shift from GATT to WTO, I empirically test whether higher judicial impartiality is associated with enhanced legitimacy perceptions among states in the international free trade regime.

Author

• Vegard Tørstad, University of Oslo