Socio-Legal Approaches to International Economic Law Text, Context, Subtext [Paperback]

This collection explores the analytical, empirical and normative components that distinguish socio-legal approaches to international economic law both from each other, and from other approaches. It pays particular attention to the substantive focus (what) of socio-legal approaches, noting that they go beyond the text to consider context and, often, subtext. In the process of identifying the what and the how (analytical and empirical tools) of their own socio-legal approaches, contributors to this collection reveal why they or anyone else ought to bother--the many reasons why it is important, for theory and for practice, to take a social legal approach to international economic law.

Part 1: Approaching International Economic Law 1. What Does It mean to Take a Socio-Legal Approach to International Economic Law? Amanda Perry-Kessaris 2. Navigating New Landscapes: Socio-Legal Mapping of Plurality and Power in International Economic Law Celine Tan 3. Law, Economy, and Society in the Global Age: Taking Stock of an Emerging Field of Studies Sabine Frerichs Part 2: Context: Concepts andRelationships, Facts and Methods  4. Constrained Openness: A Prologue to a Theory on the Interaction between WTO and General International Law Ronnie Yearwood 5. (Re)conceptualising Regional Trade as a Socio-Legal Phenomenon Clair Gammage 6. Tournaments for Global Authority: The Politics of Primacy in the Ecology of International Trade Law Organizations Terence C. Halliday and Susan Block-Lieb 7. Framing and Blaming: The Case of Human Trafficking David Nelken 8. Cosmopolitanism Meets Political Economy: The Case of International Investment Law David Schneiderman 9. Reflexive International Economic Law: Balancing Economic and Social Goals in the Construction of LawCels½