Socio-Legal Approaches to International Economic Law: Text, Context, Subtext. By AMANDA PERRY-KESSARIS
- Fiona Smith
- 2014/12/17
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- Journal of International Economic Law, Vol. 17 (4), Dec. 2014, pp. 867
In the March 2014 edition of the Journal of International Economic Law (JIEL), the editors draw attention to an emerging body of scholarship. By concentrating on the interaction between international economic law (IEL), constitutionalism, justice, and human rights, the editors argue that this emerging scholarship brings IEL into contact with ‘a multitude of complex legal and social issues involving human flourishing at every level’ in a way that reveals the ‘regulatory structure of the global economy’ in the 21st century.1 Whilst the recent book reviews in JIEL alone reveal a burgeoning literature exploring the normative dimensions of this regulatory structure,2 examinations of the more theoretical underpinnings of IEL are not new, as important contributions by Petersmann (2013),3 Dunoff (1997),4 Garcia (1998),5 Alvarez (2002),6 Cho (2005)7 and Lang (2007),8 for example, show. Rather, what we are witnessing in 2014 is a conceptual coming of age. Theoretical treatments are increasingly regarded as crucial to our understanding of IEL and are no longer merely the esoteric and extraneous meanderings of scholars disconnected from the real world in which IEL must function. By marking out the need for further normative treatments of this dimension of IEL scholarship, JIEL’s editors are legitimating it as a field of endeavor for the first time. This is an important breakthrough for …
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