Without transparency, trade agreements are just words on paper. Transparency as disclosure allows economic actors and trading partners to see how rules are implanted; transparency in decision-making ensures fairness and peer review. In the first section of this paper, I discuss the logic of...

chapter 1 Introduction to the study of linkages -- chapter 2 A ‘governance space’ theory on linkages -- chapter 3 The normative hierarchy debate and its distractions -- chapter 4 The disputed role of the dispute settlement body -- chapter 5 WTO and the shrinking of governance space --...

This chapter reviews and synthesizes the work of economists and law and economics scholars in the field of public international law. The bulk of that work has been in the area of international trade, but many of the ideas in the trade literature have implications for other subfields. Recent...