The International Law Reporter weblog has run a series of posts on a December 2006 conference on international law and economics:
Last December, the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods hosted a conference on Public International Law and Economics: The Power of Rational Choice Methodology in Guiding the Analysis and the Design of Public International Law Institutions. A number of the conference papers will be published in a forthcoming issue of the University of Illinois Law Review. (Other papers have been and will be published elsewhere.)...
Here are links to the four posts:
- (a) Symposium: Public International Law and Economics (July 13);
- (b) Kontorovich: The Inefficiency of Universal Jurisdiction (July 17);
- (c) Symposium on Public International Law and Economics: Additional Papers (July 19); and
- (d) Symposium on Public International Law and Economics: Still More Papers (July 24).
Each post has abstracts and links to one or more papers. There's a lot of good stuff here: public good expert Todd Sandler with a "rationalist approach to treaty formation and adherence," a paper with an economic analysis of the spread of bilateral investment treaties (BITs), "Precommitment Theory Applied to International Law: Between Sovereignty and Triviality," "The Case Against Reforming the WTO's Enforcement Mechanism," and more.
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