Economic Analysis of International Law

Edited by Eugene Kontorovich, Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University and Francesco Parisi, Oppenheimer Wolff and Donnelly Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School, US, and Professor of Economics, University of Bologna, Italy

• Contents:PART I THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF INTERNATIONAL ORDERThe Economics of International Law: An IntroductionEugene Kontorovich and Francesco Parisi1. The Economics of Political BordersEnrico Spolaore2. The Economics of State Emergence and CollapseBridget L. Coggins with Ishita Kala3. Economic Analysis of Territorial SovereigntyAbraham BellPART II SOURCES OF LAW4. The Economic Analysis of International Treaty LawFrancesco Parisi and Daniel Pi5. Soft LawAndrew T. Guzman and Timothy Meyer6. The Emergence and Evolution of Customary International LawFrancesco Parisi and Daniel PiPART III ENFORCEMENT7. Treaty EnforcementPaul B. Stephan8. The Interaction Between Domestic and International LawTom GinsburgPART IV APPLICATIONS AND EXTENSIONS9. Atrocity, Policy, and the Laws of War: What does Political Science have to say to Law?James D. Morrow10. Behavioral Economic Analysis of International LawAnne van Aaken and Tomer BroudeIndex

’Ten essays by international lawyers and law and economics specialists offer overviews of the building blocks of international order, sources of international law, enforcement, and the application and extensions of the economic analysis of international law. . . . Why has law and economics been so long in coming to international law? . . If law and economics analysis attracted adherents in international law, the history of international law is an inviting playground.’