International Economic Law The State and Future of the Discipline

by Picker, Colin; Bunn, Isabella; Arner, Douglas

• ISBN13: 9781841137551
• ISBN10: 1841137553
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-04
• Publisher: Hart Publishing

Summary

This volume reproduces the papers given at a successful conference organized by the International Economic Law Group of the American Society of International Law held in Fall 2006 at the Mount Washington Resort Hotel, Bretton Woods. The conference focused on the research and teaching of international economic law. The papers, reflecting a diverse range of approaches and topics, will be of great value to anyone involved in teaching or writing about international economic law.

Author Biography

Colin B Picker is Professor of Law at the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Law; he served as Co-Chair of the International Economic Law Group of the American Society of International Law, and is Co-Chair of the Founding Committee of the Society of International Economic Law. Isabella D Bunn is affiliated with Regent's Park College, University of Oxford, and is Chair of Ethics at the Florida Institute of Technology College of Business; she served as Co-Chair of the International Economic Law Group of the American Society of International Law. Douglas W Arner is Director of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. v
List of Journal Abbreviations	p. xi
Editors and Contributors	p. xv
The State and Future of International Economic Law	p. 1
The State & Future of International Economic Law Research	p. 13
At the End of the Yellow Brick Road: International Economic Law Research in Times of Uncertainty	p. 15
A New Legal Realism: Method in International Economic Law Scholarship	p. 29
International Economic Law Research: A Taxonomy	p. 43
Opportunism and the WTO: Corporations, Academics and 'Member States'	p. 53
Some Sociological Perspectives on International Institutions and the Trading System	p. 73
Law of the Global Economy: In Need of a New Methodological Approach?	p. 89
Of Foxes and Hedgehogs: Some Thoughts about the Relationship Between WTO Law and General International Law	p. 107
Different Scholarships, the Same World: Interdisciplinary Research on IEL	p. 121
The State & Future of International Economic Law Teaching	p. 133
International Economic Law in US Law Schools: Evaluating Its Pedagogy and Identifying Future Challenges	p. 135
Venutian Scholarship in a Martin Landscape: Celebrating and Reflecting on Women in International Economic Law Teaching and Scholarship	p. 157
An Essay on Teaching International Economic Law from a Corporate Perspective	p. 171
New Agendas for International Economic Law Teaching in India: Including an Agenda in Support of Reform	p. 185
Shifting Paradigms of Parochialism: Lessons for Legal Education	p. 207
Corporate Social Responsibility of Multinational Enterprises and the International Business Law Curriculum	p. 219
The State & Future of International Economic Law Practice In The Bretton Woods Era	p. 235
The Future of International Economic Law Practice	p. 237
The Developing Discipline of International Financial Law	p. 245
Investment Treaty Arbitral Decisions as Jurisprudence Constante	p. 265
The Role of Law and Lawyers in Vietnam's WTO Accession	p. 281
Exercising Quasi-Judicial Review Through a World Bank Appellate Body	p. 297
Jurisdiction to Prescribe and the IMF	p. 313
Index	p. 331
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