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...

Multiple, overlapping, and systemically interactive normative orders regulate commerce, trade, and finance. A diverse set of state and non-state actors produce this plurality of rules governing markets. How these rules operate, what they are, whether some of them deserve recognition as what...

The aim of this article is to inquire whether contract law can operate in a state of affairs in which artificial general intelligence (AGI) exists and has the cognitive abilities to interact with humans to exchange promises or otherwise engage in the sorts of exchanges typically governed by...

This is a book chapter written for a British Society of Legal Scholars funded conference held at Durham University Law School. It develops a framework by which to evaluate the making of commercial law at the global level. It offers an approach to evaluating the process by which primarily...

Systemic financial risk is one of the most significant collective action problems facing societies. The Great Recession brought attention to a tragedy of the commons in capital markets, in which market participants, from first-time homebuyers to Wall Street financiers, acted in ways beneficial...

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...

Justice Beyond Our Borders looks at successful judicial systems and practices outside of Latin America that could serve as models for countries of the region. It examines large-scale judicial modernization processes as well as innovative systems of case management and legal defense for the poor....

Judge Posner (2010) offers a substantial agenda for organization economics. He advises us on how organization economics can shed substantial light on some of the most pressing social problems of the day. I comment on two of the areas he selects for discussion and offer some comments on the...