Socio-Legal Approaches to International Economic Law

Amanda Perry-Kessaris is Professor of law at the University of Kent, UK.

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 and Relationships, 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 Law Cecilia Flores Elizondo 10. The Nature of Law in Transnational Economic Networks Roger Cotterrell Part 3: Subtext: Values and Interests 11. A Qui l’Homme Sauvage?: Discours and Discourse on Agreements between Mining Corporations and Indigenous Communities Deval Desai 12. Cultural Heritage v Foreign Investment: Win, Loss or Draw? Valentina Vadi 13. Global Justice Disembedded: The Potential of Socio-Legal Theory and Practice Kirsteen Shields 14. ‘You are on my property’: Economic, Legal and Moral Objections to Regulation from a Banker’s Perspective Ioannis Glinavos 15. Corporate Respect for Human Rights: Right Subtext, Wrong Concept? Sally Wheeler 16. How Do You Socialise Economic Actors: Embedded, ‘Socially Responsible’ and/or ‘Human Rights Respecting’ Corporations? Aurora Voiculescu