Prof. Dani Rodrik introduces this panel, "The World Trade Organization: Can It Still Do Its Job?," calling the title "highly relevant" in a time when the effectiveness, efficacy, desirability, and relevance of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is being questioned. The American Economic Review recently published an article indicating that the WTO had absolutely no effect on the body of world trade. According to Prof. Rodrick, this line of questioning raises many issues that the panelists will begin to address.