Substantive Justice Formulated, Implemented, and Enforced as Formal and Procedural Justice: A Lesson from WTO Special and Differential Treatment Provisions for Developing Countries

Abstract

In accommodating the interests of developing country Members, the World Trade Organization (WTO) provided for approximately 145 Special and Differential Treatment (SD and, as a matter of law, S&D provisions can be considered as a legitimate discrimination or, at least, as an illegitimate but tolerated discrimination.