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...

In this paper we use novel historical data on economics and social rights from the constitutions of 201 countries and an instrument variable strategy to answer two important questions. First, do economic and social rights provisions in constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of...

This article uses Oliver Wendell Holmes's famous definition of the law as “prophecies of what the courts will do in fact” rather than rules expressed in statutes, case law etc. It discusses two aspects of law. First, it compares perspectives about law in litigation, mediation, and...

Wirtschaftlicher Zwang ist ein Mittel der Außenpolitik, welches in einem internationalen Umfeld, das geprägt ist von geopolitischen Spannungen und der Instrumentalisierung des Handels als Waffe, immer mehr an Bedeutung gewinnt. Solche Maßnahmen stellen auch für die EU ein zunehmendes Problem...

The WTO and the human rights systems have been created to pursue the same global objective: advancing human welfare. However, while the WTO scheme, including the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA), is concerned with aggregated improvements in global welfare, human rights focus on the individual and...