Petros C. Mavroidis

About

Petros C. Mavroidis is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Foreign & Comparative Law at Columbia Law School, where he has been a faculty member since 2003. His educational background includes a Dr. Iuris from the University of Heidelberg, an LL.M. from the University of California at Berkeley, a Master’s from U.L.B. Brussels, and an LL.B. from the University of Thessaloniki. His areas of study encompass International and Comparative Law, Litigation, and Dispute Resolution, with a particular focus on World Trade Organization (WTO) law. Mavroidis has served as a member of the WTO legal affairs division and has been a legal adviser to the WTO since 1996. He was the chief co-rapporteur for the American Law Institute study “Principles of International Trade: The WTO” in 2013. His scholarly work includes authoring ten books and numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. His notable publications include “The Regulation of International Trade,” which won the 2017 Certificate of Merit in International Law from the American Society of International Law, and other works analyzing WTO agreements, dispute settlement, and interpretation of WTO law. He is actively involved in various academic and professional organizations, including the Center on Global Governance at Columbia, the American Law Institute, the American Arbitration Association, and the Bruegel think tank. Mavroidis’s research focuses on international trade law, WTO dispute settlement, and the interpretation of WTO law,…

Research topics

• Political Science
• Law
• Business
• Economics
• International trade
• Market economy
• Political economy
• History
• Economy
• International economics

Selected publications

• WTO Reform: Back to the Past to Build for the Future

  Global Policy · 2021 · 65 citations

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  Abstract Since its formation, with a few notable exceptions, WTO members have not been able to negotiate new rules on policies that generate negative international spillovers. The Doha Development Agenda negotiations, launched in 2001, became deadlocked in 2008. Problems extend beyond negotiations – other functions of the WTO are also not performing well. The dispute settlement mechanism, long perceived as the crown jewel of the organization, no longer is operational because of US refusal to app…

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• All the Tea in China: Solving the ‘China Problem’ at the WTO

  Global Policy · 2021 · 43 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  Abstract The history of China’s accession to the WTO has been a rollercoaster of alacrity and acrimony. Hailed as another milestone in the WTO‐era, it soon proved to be a thorn in the side of the multilateral edifice. Various complaints have arisen, and all have to do with the role of state involvement in the workings of the economy. The cause of concern is not state involvement per se – it is state involvement in an economy of unprecedented size. State‐owned enterprises and transfer of technolo…

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• WTO Dispute Settlement and the Appellate Body: Insider Perceptions and Members’ Revealed Preferences

  Journal of World Trade · 2020 · 38 citations

  The WTO dispute settlement system is in crisis, following the decision of the United States to block new appointments to the Appellate Body (AB). The AB went into hibernation in December 2019, not having enough sitting members to be able to operate. What do WTO members think of the performance of WTO dispute settlement? How much do WTO members care about the existence and operation of an appeals mechanism? In this article, we report on the results of a survey of WTO Members’ perceptions of the A…

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• Plurilateral Agreements, Multilateralism and Economic Development

  The Journal of World Investment & Trade · 2025-01-03 · 3 citations

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  Abstract Plurilateral agreements among sub-sets of economies have a long history within the multilateral trading system. Plurilaterals may appear superficially less attractive than a set of non-discriminatory multilateral rules that apply to all WTO members but may, both in theory and in practice, be better suited to accommodate diversity across countries in the desire and ability to regulate certain aspects of economic activity. As long as such differences between countries do not lead to discr…

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• Standard of Review

  Edward Elgar Publishing Limited eBooks · 2026-03-20

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Frequent coauthors

• Henrik Horn

  171 shared

• Bernard Hoekman

  Centre for Economic Policy Research

  158 shared

• Kyle Bagwell

  Stanford University

  47 shared

• André Sapir

  41 shared

• Gene M. Grossman

  Princeton University

  35 shared

• Damien Neven

  Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

  33 shared

• David Palmeter

  Sidley Austin

  29 shared

• Thomas J. Schoenbaum

  University of Washington

  28 shared

Awards & honors

• The Regulation of International Trade won the 2017 Certifica…

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