Economic Foundations Of International Law

Author : Eric Posner,Alan O. Sykes
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674071520

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Economic Foundations of International Law by Eric Posner,Alan O. Sykes Pdf

The ever-increasing exchange of goods and ideas among nations, as well as cross-border pollution, global warming, and international crime, pose urgent questions for international law. Here, two respected scholars provide an intellectual framework for assessing these pressing legal problems from a rational choice perspective. The approach assumes that states are rational, forward-looking agents which use international law to address the actions of other states that may have consequences for their own citizens, and to obtain the benefits of international cooperation. It further assumes that in the absence of a central enforcement agency—that is, a world government—international law must be self-enforcing. States must believe that if they violate international agreements, other states will retaliate. Consequently, Eric A. Posner and Alan O. Sykes devote considerable attention to the challenges of enforcing international law, which begin with the difficulties of determining what it is. In the absence of an international constitution, the sources for international law are vague. Lawyers must rely on statements contained in all manner of official documents and on simple observation of states’ behavior. This looseness leads international institutions such as the United Nations to deliver conflicting interpretations of the law’s most basic principles. The authors describe the conditions under which international law succeeds or fails, across a wide range of issues, including war crimes, human rights, international criminal law, principles of state responsibility, law of the sea, international trade regulation, and international investment law.

Author : David Collins
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788975698

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Foundations of International Economic Law by David Collins Pdf

This introductory textbook explores the key legal principles and institutions that underpin the global economy. Featuring discussion of the economic rationale and social impact of the various legal regimes, Professor David Collins explores the four main pillars in international economic law: international trade, international investment, monetary relations, and development.

Author : Oona Anne Hathaway,Harold Hongju Koh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015069131137

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Foundations of International Law and Politics by Oona Anne Hathaway,Harold Hongju Koh Pdf

This title is a compilation of materials designed to bridge the gap between the disciplines of international law and international relations. It could be used as a companion to case books for a course in international law, as a reader in an advanced seminar in international law, or in a political science class on international relations of globalization.

Author : Matthias Herdegen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198897835

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Principles of International Economic Law, 3e by Matthias Herdegen Pdf

Herdegen's Principles of International Economic Law has established itself as a leading textbook in the field. This fully updated third edition covers areas of growing relevance in international economic law, including corporate social responsibility, challenges for WTO law, the impact of human rights and environmental law, and cryptocurrencies.

Author : John Linarelli,Margot E. Salomon,Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198753957

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The Misery of International Law by John Linarelli,Margot E. Salomon,Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah Pdf

Poverty, inequality, and dispossession accompany economic globalization. Bringing together three international law scholars, this book addresses how international law and its regimes of trade, investment, finance, as well as human rights, are implicated in the construction of misery, and how international law is producing, reproducing, and embedding injustice and narrowing the alternatives that might really serve humanity. Adopting a pluralist approach, the authors confront the unconscionable dimensions of the global economic order, the false premises upon which they are built, and the role of international law in constituting and sustaining them. Combining insights from radical critiques, political philosophy, history, and critical development studies, the book explores the pathologies at work in international economic law today. International law must abide by the requirements of justice if it is to make a call for compliance with it, but this work claims it drastically fails do so. In a legal order structured around neoliberal ideologies rather than principles of justice, every state can and does grab what it can in the economic sphere on the basis of power and interest, legally so and under colour of law. This book examines how international law on trade and foreign investment and the law and norms on global finance has been shaped to benefit the rich and powerful at the expense of others. It studies how a set of principles, in the form of a New International Economic Order (NIEO), that could have laid the groundwork for a more inclusive international law without even disrupting its market-orientation, were nonetheless undermined. As for international human rights law, it is under the terms of global capitalism that human rights operate. Before we can understand how human rights can create more just societies, we must first expose the ways in which they reflect capitalist society and how they assist in reproducing the underlying terms of immiseration that will continue to create the need for human rights protection. This book challenges conventional justifications of economic globalization and eschews false choices. It is not about whether one is "for" or "against" international trade, foreign investment, or global finance. The issue is to resolve how, if we are to engage in trade, investment, and finance, we do so in a manner that is accountable to persons whose lives are affected by international law. The deployment of human rights for their part must be considered against the ubiquity of neoliberal globalization under law, and not merely as a discrete, benevolent response to it.

Author : Morton A. Kaplan,Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : International law
ISBN : UOM:39015013248508

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The Political Foundations of International Law by Morton A. Kaplan,Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach Pdf

Author : Zachary Douglas,Joost Pauwelyn,Jorge E. Viñuales
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199685387

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The Foundations of International Investment Law by Zachary Douglas,Joost Pauwelyn,Jorge E. Viñuales Pdf

Bringing together conceptual theories of international investment law with the practical application of the law in treaty arbitration, this book investigates the key controversies in the field. It provides a detailed examination of how a different theoretical approach would have led to a different outcome in a number of important arbitral awards.

Author : Joel P. TRACHTMAN,Joel P Trachtman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674044432

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The Economic Structure of International Law by Joel P. TRACHTMAN,Joel P Trachtman Pdf

This book presents policymakers and scholars with an over-arching analytical model of international law, one that demonstrates the potential of international law, but also explains how policymakers should choose among different international legal structures.

Author : Thomas Cottier,Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Foreign trade regulation
ISBN : 1784713538

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Elgar Encyclopedia of International Economic Law by Thomas Cottier,Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer Pdf

"Organized thematically rather than alphabetically, the subject is split into four principal sections: the foundations and architecture of international economic law, its principles, its main regulatory areas, and the future challenges that it faces. Comprising over 250 entries..., traditional international economic law subject matter is supplemented by coverage of newly developing areas. Thus, the concepts and rules of trade, investment, finance and international tax law are found alongside entries discussing the relationship of international economic law with environmental protection, social standards, development, and human rights."--

Author : Eugene Kontorovich,Francesco Parisi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857930163

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Economic Analysis of International Law by Eugene Kontorovich,Francesco Parisi Pdf

Through original and incisive contributions from leading scholars, this book applies economics and other rational choice methods to an understanding of public international law, providing a bird’s eye view of some of its most fundamental elements from the perspective of economics. The chapters cover a range of topics, beginning with the building blocks of the nation state and continuing with the sources and the enforcement of international law and its various applications and extensions. The application of economic analysis to public international law is still in its formative stages and Economic Analysis of International Law provides a useful overview, as well as setting directions for new research. This volume provides a path through recent literature while identifying new areas and issues for research, making it an invaluable resource for scholars of public international law.

Author : Matthias Herdegen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Foreign trade regulation
ISBN : 9780198790563

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Principles of International Economic Law by Matthias Herdegen Pdf

Principles of International Economic Law provides a comprehensive overview of the central topics in international economic law, with an emphasis on the interplay between the different economic and political interests on both the international and domestic levels. Following recent tendencies, the book sets the classic topics of international economic law, like WTO law, investment protection, commercial law and monetary law in context with aspects of human rights, environmental protection and the legitimate claims of developing countries. The book draws a concise picture of the architecture of international economic law with all its complexities, without getting lost in fragmented details. Providing a perfect introductory text to the field of international economic law, the book thoroughly analyses legal developments within their wider political, economic, or social context. Topics covered range from codes of conduct for multinational enterprises, to the human rights implications of the exploitation of natural resources. The book demonstrates the economic foundations and economic implications of legal frameworks. It puts into profile the often complex relationship between, on the one hand, international standards on liberalization and economic rationality and, on the other, state sovereignty and national preferences. It describes the new forms of economic cooperation which have developed in recent decades, such as the growing number of transnational companies in the private sector, and forms of cooperation between states such as the G8 or G20. This fully updated second edition covers new aspects and developments including the growing importance of corporate social responsibility, mega-regional-agreements like CETA, TTIP, and TPP, trade and investment related aspects of human rights law.

Author : Anthea Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190696412

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Is International Law International? by Anthea Roberts Pdf

This book takes the reader on a sweeping tour of the international legal field to reveal some of the patterns of difference, dominance, and disruption that belie international law's claim to universality. Pulling back the curtain on the "divisible college of international lawyers," Anthea Roberts shows how international lawyers in different states, regions, and geopolitical groupings are often subject to distinct incoming influences and outgoing spheres of influence in ways that reflect and reinforce differences in how they understand and approach international law. These divisions manifest themselves in contemporary controversies, such as debates about Crimea and the South China Sea. Not all approaches to international law are created equal, however. Using case studies and visual representations, the author demonstrates how actors and materials from some states and groups have come to dominate certain transnational flows and forums in ways that make them disproportionately influential in constructing the "international." This point holds true for Western actors, materials, and approaches in general, and for Anglo-American (and sometimes French) ones in particular. However, these patterns are set for disruption. As the world moves past an era of Western dominance and toward greater multipolarity, it is imperative for international lawyers to understand the perspectives and approaches of those coming from diverse backgrounds. By taking readers on a comparative tour of different international law academies and textbooks, the author encourages them to see the world through the eyes of others -- an essential skill in this fast changing world of shifting power dynamics and rising nationalism.

Author : Alexander Orakhelashvili
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781839106446

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International Law and International Politics by Alexander Orakhelashvili Pdf

This illuminating book explores a multitude of areas in which law and politics intersect on the international plane, providing a comprehensive analysis of the foundations on which both international law and politics rest. The book examines both disciplines’ mutual interaction in more specific areas such as public authority, global space, and peace.

Author : Brian Opeskin,Richard Perruchoud,Jillyanne Redpath-Cross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139576857

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Foundations of International Migration Law by Brian Opeskin,Richard Perruchoud,Jillyanne Redpath-Cross Pdf

International migration law is an important field of international law, which has attracted exceptional interest in recent years. This book has been written from a wide variety of perspectives for those wanting to understand the legal framework that regulates migration. It is intended for students new to this field of study who seek an overview of its many components. It will also appeal to those who have focussed on a particular branch of international migration law but require an understanding of how their specialisation fits with other branches of the discipline. Written by migration law specialists and led by respected international experts, this volume draws upon the combined knowledge of international migration law and policy from academia; international, intergovernmental, regional and non-governmental organisations; and national governments. Additional features include case studies, maps, break-out boxes and references to resources which allow for a full understanding of the law in context.

Author : Asif Hasan Qureshi,Andreas R. Ziegler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03
Category : Foreign trade regulation
ISBN : 0414066103

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International Economic Law by Asif Hasan Qureshi,Andreas R. Ziegler Pdf