The Limits of Leviathan: Contract Theory and the Enforcement of International Law

Much of international law, like much of contract, is enforced not by independent sanctions but rather through cooperative interaction among the parties, with repeat dealings, reputation, and a preference for reciprocity doing most of the enforcement work. Originally published in 2006, The Limits of Leviathan identifies areas in international law where formal enforcement provides the most promising means of promoting cooperation and where it does not. In particular, it looks at the International Criminal Court, the rules for world trade, efforts to enlist domestic courts to enforce orders of the International Court of Justice, domestic judicial enforcement of the Geneva Convention, the domain of international commercial agreements, and the question of odious debt incurred by sovereigns. This book explains how international law, like contract, depends largely on the willingness of responsible parties to make commitments.

Scott, Robert E.

Stephan, Paul B.

Foreign & International Law

Cambridge University Press

The Law and Economics of the European Union

LexisNexis

This second edition looks closely at both the content of NAFTA and the Uruguay Round Multilateral Agreements, and at the US legislation implementing them. The authors also incorporate a number of panel decisions under both of these agreements, to focus on the emerging jurisprudence of international trade law. Throughout, the text prompts the reader to consider the effects of particular rules and offers various models and methodologies that suggest a variety of answers to these questions. The authors include large portions of materials on taxation. The tax materials are intended for teachers who are not tax specialists and for students who may not have had any tax courses during their legal education. Moreover, these materials are kept in discrete subsections, so teachers who wish to elide taxation altogether easily can use the text. The entire book, including the tax materials, can be taught in a four-hour course. Those who are confined to a three-hour format can leave out the tax and

International Business And Economics: Law And Policy

Business & Money

International

Lexis Nexis/Matthew Bender

The knowledge economy, a seeming wonder for the world, has caused unintended harms that threaten peace and prosperity and undo international cooperation and the international rule of law. The world faces threats of war, pandemics, growing domestic political discord, climate change, disruption of international trade and investment, immigration, and the pollution of cyberspace, just as international law increasingly falls short as a tool for managing these challenges. Prosperity dependent on meritocracy, open borders, international economic freedom, and a wide-open Internet has met its limits, with international law one of the first casualties. Any effective response to these threats must reflect the pathway by which these perils arrive. Part of the answer to these challenges, Paul B. Stephan argues, must include a re-conception of international law as arising out of pragmatic and limited experiments by states, rather than as grand projects to remake and redeem the world.

The World Crisis and International Law: The Knowledge Economy and the Battle for the Future

The World Crisis and International Law

International business and economics: Law and policy (Contemporary legal education series)

Accounting

Michie Co.

Estate & Gift Tax (Professor)

ASPEN PUB.

The view that international law functions independently of municipal law (hermetically), does not reflect contemporary international practice. Instead, international law in the modern era engages intensively and extensively in projects that occupy areas traditionally governed by municipal law, such as business regulation as well as the rights and duties of persons. The resulting overlap in legal dominions requires a new conceptualization of the relationship between international and municipal law. This book explores the mechanisms employed to allocate authority to international and municipal law in international disputes. Taking a broader view, this course explores the work of international bodies, domestic courts, and informal dispute resolution, including diplomacy and the use of coercive measures. It identifies the mechanisms used to manage the overlapping dominions of international and municipal law as pooling, referral, and nesting. In the final chapter, the book explores how different opportunities and ambitions for international law can affect the use of these mechanisms in particular international disputes.

Applying Municipal Law in International Disputes (Hague Academy of International Law)

Martinus Nijhoff

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