ACWL Staff
Ms Petina Gappah
Ms Petina Gappah has been a counsel at the ACWL since May 2002. In this capacity, she has assisted ACWL Members in WTO disputes and provided legal opinions and training on WTO Law. She is also responsible for the ACWL's Secondment Programme for Trade Lawyers.
A Zimbabwean national, Ms Gappah holds a doctorate from the Karl-Franz University in Graz, Austria, a Master of Laws degree from Cambridge University and a Bachelor of Laws Honours degree from the University of Zimbabwe.
From 1999-2002, Ms Gappah was a lawyer in the Appellate Body Secretariat of the World Trade Organisation, which provides support to the Members of the Appellate Body. She also worked with several individual Appellate Body Members appointed as arbitrators to determine the reasonable period of time for implementation and participated in technical assistance missions and trade policy courses.
Ms Gappah is a registered legal practitioner with the High Court of Zimbabwe. She is a member of the academic advisory board of the Arusha-based Trade Policy Training Centre in Africa.
She speaks Shona, English, German and intermediate French.
Her publications include:
- An Evaluation of the Role of Legal Aid in International Dispute Resolution, with Special Emphasis on the Advisory Centre on WTO Law, in H . Hormann, Agreeing and Implementing the Doha Round of the World Trade Organization WTO, Oxford University Press, 2008.
- A re-appraisal of non-violation complaints under the WTO dispute settlement procedures, with Frieder Roessler, in Macrory, Appleton and Plummer (eds.) The World Trade Organization, Legal, Economic and Political Analyses, Vol. I, Springer, 2005.
- The participation of developing countries in WTO dispute settlement: A View from the Bench, with former Appellate Body Member Julio Lacarte Muro, Oxford Journal of International and Economic Law, September 2000.
To contact Ms Gappah, please use the standard email format: name.surname@acwl.ch.