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Bretton Woods'' has become shorthand for the post-war international financial and economic framework. Mindful of the historic 1944 conference and its legacy for the discipline of international economic law, the American Society of International Law''s International Economic Law Group (IELG) chose Bretton Woods as the venue for a landmark scholarly meeting. In November of 2006, a diverse group of academics and practitioners gathered to reflect on the past, present and future of international economic law. They sought to survey and advance three particular areas of endeavour: research and scholarship, teaching, and practice/service. This book represents an edited collection of some of the exceptional papers presented at the conference including contributions from Andreas Lowenfeld, Joel Trachtman, Amelia Porges and Andrew Lang. The volume is organised into three parts, each covering one of the three pillars in the discipline of international economic law: research and scholarship; teaching; and practice/service. It begins with an assessment of the state and future of research in the field, including chapters on questions such as: what is international economic law? Is it a branch of international law or of economic law? How do fields outside of law, such as economics and international relations, relate to international economic law? How do research methodologies influence policy outcomes? The second part examines the state and future of teaching in the subject. Chapters cover topics such as: how and where is international economic law taught? Is the training provided in the law schools suitable for future academics, government officials, or practitioners? How might regional shortcomings in academic resources be addressed? The final part of the book focuses on the state and future of international economic law practice in the Bretton Woods era, including institutional reform. The contributors consider issues such as: what is the nature of international economic law practice? What are the needs of practitioners in government, private practice, international and non-governmental organisations? Finally, how have the Bretton Woods institutions adapted to these and other challenges-and how might they better respond in the future?International Economic Law: The State and Future of the Discipline will be of interest to lawyers, economists and other professionals throughout the world-whether in the private, public, academic or non-governmental sectors-seeking both fresh insights and expert assessments in this expanding field. Indeed, the book itself promises to play a role in the next phase of the development of international economic law.>...
List of contents
1. The State and Future of International Economic Law
Isabella D Bunn & Colin B Picker
I THE STATE & FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW RESEARCH
2. At the End of the Yellow Brick Road: International Economic Law Research in Times of Uncertainty
Tomer Broude
3. A New Legal Realism: Method in International Economic Law Scholarship
Gregory Shaffer
4. International Economic Law Research: A Taxonomy
Joel P Trachtman
5. Opportunism and the WTO: Corporations, Academics and 'Member States'
Sara Dillon
6. Some Sociological Perspectives on International Institutions and the Trading System
Andrew T F Lang
7. Law of the Global Economy: In Need of a New Methodological Approach?
Federico Ortino and Matteo Ortino
8. Of Foxes and Hedgehogs: Some Thoughts about the Relationship Between WTO Law and General International Law
Emmanuel Voyiakis
9. Different Scholarships, the Same World: Interdisciplinary Research on IEL
Chen-Yu Wang
II THE STATE & FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW TEACHING
10. International Economic Law in US Law Schools: Evaluating Its Pedagogy and Identifying Future Challenges
Karen E Bravo
11. Venutian Scholarship in a Martian Landscape: Celebrating and Reflecting on Women in International Economic Law Teaching and Scholarship
Tracey Epps & Rose Ann MacGillivray
12. An Essay on Teaching International Economic Law from a Corporate Perspective
Franklin A Gevurtz
13. New Agendas for International Economic Law Teaching in India: Including an Agenda in Support of Reform
Seema Sapra
14. Shifting Paradigms of Parochialism: Lessons for Legal Education
Elizabeth Trujillo
15. Corporate Social Responsibility of Multinational Enterprises and the International Business Law Curriculum
Constance Z Wagner
III THE STATE & FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW PRACTICE IN THE BRETTON WOODS ERA
16. The Future of International Economic Law Practice
Amelia Porges
17. The Developing Discipline of International Financial Law
Douglas W Arner
18. Investment Treaty Arbitral Decisions as Jurisprudence Constante
Andrea K Bjorklund
19. The Role of Law and Lawyers in Vietnam's WTO Accession
David A Gantz
20. Exercising Quasi-Judicial Review Through a World Bank Appellate Body
Rumu Sarkar
21. Jurisdiction to Prescribe and the IMF
Andreas F Lowenfeld
About the author
Colin Picker is Professor of Law and the Dean of the School of Law at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia.Dr Isabella D Bunn is affiliated with Regent's Park College, University of Oxford, and is Professor of Ethics at the Florida Institute of Technology, College of Business. She serves on the Founding Executive Committee of the Society of International Economic Law and on the Council of the American Bar Association's Section of International Law.Douglas W Arner is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong.
