Arthur Appleton presented at a Senior Executive Development Program on Global Trade Strategies in a program organized by Dhirubhai Ambani University, the International Law Institute, and the ELP Law Firm on November 12-14.
Arthur Appleton provided executive education courses on Trade in Serivces and on EU Investment Law to European corporate executives and diplomats at the College of Europe.
Arthur Appleton chaired a panel at the 2026 World Trade Forum: Coping with Chaos: Sustainnig the Rules-based Trade Order. The panel members who explored plurilateral cooperation were: Bernard Hoekman, Rohit Ticku, Axel Berger and Yang Guohua.
When one considers the WTO's present framework, one must ask whether the global trading system's presumptive guardian is approaching an evolutionary dead-end. No matter how difficult, the WTO must reform to survive, and this can only be done by identifying the system’s shortcomings and ways to tackle them.
