ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |49 pages
Approaching international economic law
chapter |17 pages
Navigating new landscapes
part |100 pages
Context
chapter |11 pages
How World Trade Organization law makes itself possible
chapter |13 pages
(Re)conceptualising international economic law
chapter |20 pages
Power and production in global legal pluralism
chapter |15 pages
Reflexive international economic law
part |99 pages
Subtext