Peter van den Bossche

Peter Van den Bossche is Director of Studies of the World Trade Institute and Professor of International Economic Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bern, Switzerland. He currently fulfils these functions on a part-time basis. He was a member of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization from 2009 to 2017, and served as its chairman in 2015. He is a visiting professor at Maastricht University, the Netherlands (since 2016), at the LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy (since 2016), at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador (since 2016), at the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium (since 2010), and at the University of Barcelona, Spain (since 2008). He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of International Economic Law, the Journal of World Investment and Trade, the Revista Latinoamericana de Derecho Comercial Internacional and the WTO Chairs Programme of the World Trade Organization.
Peter Van den Bossche holds a doctorate in law from the European University Institute, Florence, an LL.M. from the University of Michigan Law School and a Licence en Droit from the University of Antwerp. Van den Bossche is the author (with Werner Zdouc) of The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization, 4th edition (Cambridge University Press, 2017), 1077 p.; and (with Denise Prévost) of Essentials of WTO Law (Cambridge University Press, 2016), 302 p.