The Good Case: Decisions to Litigate at the World Trade Organization From: Law & Society Review | Date: March 1, 2008| Author: Conti, Joseph A | Copyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Mar 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

This article draws upon the law-in-action, repeat players, and motive to understand how legal actors construct the "good case" in dispute settlement systems. The construction of "good cases" is examined at the World Trade Organization (WTO), a relatively new and unexplored site for the study of dispute settlement. Findings show that the good case encompasses flexible sets of motives including economic, political, and symbolic characteristics of trade grievances to mobilize WTO law. The flexib...

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