{"id":699212,"date":"2010-03-23T22:32:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T02:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldtradelaw.typepad.com\/ielpblog\/2010\/03\/a-wto-litigation-strategy-question.html"},"modified":"2010-03-23T22:32:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T02:32:11","slug":"a-wto-litigation-strategy-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/699212","title":{"rendered":"A WTO Litigation Strategy Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#39;s say you are&#0160;a government&#0160;who is concerned about the WTO-consistency of a particular measure of a trading partner.&#0160; You&#39;d really like for that measure to be found&#0160;in violation of WTO rules. Does bringing additional, less convincing,&#0160;claims against other measures (perhaps related to the first measure, perhaps not)&#0160;increase the chances that you&#39;ll win the claim you really care about?&#0160; The theory is that the panel can &quot;split the difference&quot; by finding a violation for the claim you really want to win, but rejecting the other claims, thereby seeming to give both sides something.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;d be curious to hear if somebody has ever&#0160;tried to answer this question, empirically&#0160;or otherwise.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?a=BKaoXPLEUNI:uQgowqQ9RGo:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?a=BKaoXPLEUNI:uQgowqQ9RGo:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?a=BKaoXPLEUNI:uQgowqQ9RGo:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?i=BKaoXPLEUNI:uQgowqQ9RGo:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?a=BKaoXPLEUNI:uQgowqQ9RGo:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?a=BKaoXPLEUNI:uQgowqQ9RGo:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?i=BKaoXPLEUNI:uQgowqQ9RGo:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ielpblog\/~4\/BKaoXPLEUNI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#39;s say you are&#0160;a government&#0160;who is concerned about the WTO-consistency of a particular measure of a trading partner.&#0160; You&#39;d really like for that measure to be found&#0160;in violation of WTO rules. Does bringing additional, less convincing,&#0160;claims against other measures (perhaps related to the first measure, perhaps not)&#0160;increase the chances that you&#39;ll win the claim you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2617,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2VTC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}