The WTO Dispute Settlement System: Administration, Court Or Tertium Genus‪?‬

I. INTRODUCTION It is an undeniable reality that some organizations exercise their powers beyond and over national governments. Most of these supranational bodies (the World Trade Organization (WTO), the World Bank, and the Codex Alimentarius Commission) have to comply with a universal set of public law principles. (2) Their action is supposed to be consistent with the principles of natural justice, their decisions have to be reasonable and fair, and the decision-maker has a duty to give reasons, and so on. The application of these principles constitutes one of the effects of a rule-oriented development of these international bodies, and it can be considered the outcome of the judicial process of their original international paradigm.