The paper explores the divergent U.S. integrationist and Chinese coexistence programs of international order. The U.S. program of international order is based on the aspiration to create a unison international order on the basis of the liberal concepts of civil rights, democracy and market...

"Economic models of contract typically assume that courts enforce obligations on the basis of verifiable events. As a matter of law, this is not the case. This leaves open the question of optimal contract design given the available remedies that are enforced by a court of law. This paper shows...

Most apparent differences between US and continental law lose their relevance once one looks beneath the doctrinal surface and checks how doctrine plays itself out in concrete cases. One of the few exceptions is standards of proof. Not only distinguishes US law between "preponderance of the...