Developing trade relations between states, improving transport and removing economic barriers between states reflects the fact that international contractual relations in the area sales are constantly growing. As a result, there is a need to provide a general understanding of the parties' legal...

Firm integration is fundamentally shaped by contractual frictions. But do better contracting institutions, reducing these frictions, induce firms to be more or less deeply integrated? To address this question, this paper exploits unique micro data on ownership shares across more than 200,000...

Drawing on examples from the fields of international commercial arbitration and international human rights, in particular, and also on trade, intellectual property and governance, this article explores the processes through which transnational norms are created and legitimated. The article...