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The Advisory Centre on WTO Law (ACWL) is an innovative model designed to ensure access to justice for sovereign states in WTO Law while providing capacity-building. This article details the origins of the project, the characteristics of the facility and the efforts made which culminated in a personal idea being brought to fruition in the signing of the Agreement Establishing the ACWL at the third WTO Ministerial Conference in 1999. The article describes the uniqueness of the ACWL, envisioned to enable government officials to plead their WTO cases. The article explains how the essential goal of the ACWL, is capacity-building in WTO dispute settlement in order to respond in a comprehensive manner to the needs of developing and least developed countries.

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