It is generally assumed that trade retaliation under the WTO performs some kind of `rebalancing` by allowing the injured Member to suspend `concessions and obligations` vis-agrave;-vis the violating Member of a level equivalent to the level of `nullification and impairment` suffered by the...

I review the empirical comparative law literature with an emphasis on quantitative work. After situating the field and surveying its main applications to date, I turn to methodological issues. I discuss at length the obstacles to causal inference from comparative data, and caution against...

Economists have documented pervasive correlations between legal origins, modern regulation, and economic outcomes around the world. Where legal origin is exogenous, however, it is almost perfectly correlated with another set of potentially relevant background variables: the colonial policies of...