Socio-Legal Approaches to International Economic Law

Amanda Perry-Kessaris is Professor of Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent, UK.

• Part 1: Approaching International Economic Law 1. What does it mean to take a socio-legal approach to international economic law? 2. Navigating new landscapes: Socio-legal mapping of plurality and power in international economic law, Celine Tan 3. Law, economy and society in the global age: A study guide Sabine Frerichs Part 2: Context 4. How World Trade Organisation Law Makes Itself Possible: ‘Every Time I Describe a City, I am Saying Something About Venice’ Ronnie R. F. Yearwood with Ross C. Davis 5. (Re)Conceptualising International Economic Law: A Socio-legal Approach to Regionalism Claire Gammage 6. Global Duelists: The Recursive Politics of the Text in International Trade Law Terence C. Halliday and Susan Block-Lieb 7. Power and Production in Global Legal Pluralism: An International Political Economy Approach David Schneiderman 8. Reflexive International Economic Law: Balancing Economic and Social Goals in the Construction of Law Cecilia Juliana Flores Elizondo 9. Transnational Networks of Community and International Economic Law Roger Cotterrell Part 3: Subtext 10. A Qui l’Homme Sauvage?: The Text, Context and Subtext of Agreements Between Mining Corporations and Indigenous Communities Deval Desai 11. Global Legal Transplants Through the Lens of Community: Lessons For and From Chinese Property Law Ting Xu 12. Culture Clash: Valuing Heritage in Investment Disputes Valentina Sara Vadi 13. 'You Are On My Property’: Economic, Legal and Moral Objections to Regulation from a Banker’s Perspective Ioannis Glinavos 14. Corporate Respect for Human Rights: As Good as it Gets? Sally Wheeler 15. Human Rights, Corporate Social Responsibility and International Economic Law: Strong Answers to Strong Questions? Aurora Voiculescu 16. Rewriting the Centricity of the State in Pursuit of Global Justice Kirsteen Shields.

"Throughout its interrogation of text, context, and subtext, the book’s objective is to explore IEL’s dimensions ‘sometimes for the objective purpose of achieving clarity, sometimes with a view to changing them’ (p. 15). Some contributions are particularly incisive—those of Tan, Cotterell, and Frerichs, as well as Perry-Kessaris herself, might be singled out for special mention in this regard." - Fiona Smith for Journal of International Economic Law (2014, 17, 867–869)