On June 16, 2020 the SRC held the first part of a webinar series exploring the Multiparty Interim Appeal Arbitration Agreement (MPIA, an interim agreement put forward by a group of WTO Members to temporarily address the paralysis at the WTO’s Appellate Body (AB). While its proponents highlight its most attractive features including its preservation of the WTO’s two-tier binding legal system, most WTO Members still have not signed up to it and remain curious about the impact of the MPIA on the future of WTO dispute settlement, and the WTO generally.

Watch the recording here: