#projectvhil

Thomas R. Graham (L), a current Member of the Appellate Body of the WTO, together with Robert E. Lighthizer ( R), the present US Trade Representative, in 1989. 

During Mr Lighthizer’s tenure in the Trump administration, the US has blocked all appointments and reappointments of judges to the Appellate Body of the WTO leading to, what many informed observers call, its “suffocation”.