The papers in this volume together raise and respond to this key question: how can the justice of global economic relations be enhanced and safeguarded by international economic law? First, there is a need for more careful, formal attention to the relationship between normative theory and social...

This is an article written for a symposium on Joel Trachtman's book, The Future of International Law. I first deal with the contractarian features of Trachtman's approach to understanding international law. Using the tools of new institutional economics and constitutional economics, Trachtman...