Monday, November 22, 2010

Bekker, Dolzer, & Waibel: Making Transnational Law Work in the Global Economy: Essays in Honour of Detlev Vagts

Pieter H.F. Bekker (Crowell & Moring), Rudolf Dolzer (Univ. of Bonn - Law), & Michael Waibel (Univ. of Cambridge - Law) have published Making Transnational Law Work in the Global Economy: Essays in Honour of Detlev Vagts (Cambridge Univ. Press 2010). Contents include:
  • Harold Hongju Koh, The transnationalism of Detlev Vagts
  • Pieter Bekker, Rudolf Dolzer & Michael Waibel, Introduction. A festschrift to celebrate Detlev Vagts' contributions to transnational law
  • William Alford, Detlev Vagts and the Harvard Law School
  • Henry Steiner, Constructing and developing transnational law: the contribution of Detlev Vagts
  • Anthony Anghie, 'Hegemonic international law' in retrospect
  • Andrea Bianchi, Textual interpretation and (international) law reading: the myth of (in) determinacy and the genealogy of meaning
  • Jost Delbrück, The changing role of the State in the globalizing world economy
  • Bardo Fassbender, Sources of human rights obligations binding the UN Security Council
  • Daniel Kalderimis, Is transnational law eclipsing international law?
  • Juliane Kokott, Participation in WTO and foreign direct investment - national or community competences
  • Andreas Paulus, From dualism to pluralism: the relationship between international law, European law and domestic law
  • Anne Peters, Transnational law comprises constitutional, administrative, criminal, and quasi-private law
  • Siegfried Wiessner, Founding myths, international law and voting rights in the District of Columbia
  • Jan Wouters, The tormented relationship between international law and EU law
  • Andreas Zimmermann, International law scholarship in times of dictatorship and democracy - exemplified by the life and work of Wilhelm Wengler
  • Olivier De Schutter, Sovereignty-plus in the era of interdependence: toward an international convention on combating human rights violations by transnational corporations
  • Jean Nicolas Druey, The noisy secrecy: Swiss banking law in international dispute
  • Werner Ebke, Not-for-profit organisations, conflicts of laws, and the right of establishment under the EC treaty
  • Barton Legum & Caline Mouawad, The meaning of 'investment' in the ICSID convention
  • George Nnona, Toward a proper perspective of the private company's distinctiveness
  • Hernán Pérez Loose, Administrative law and international law: the encounter of an odd couple
  • Jeswald Salacuse, Making transnational law a reality through regime-building: the case of international investment law
  • Michael Waibel, Creditor protection in international law
  • David Westbrook, Stability, integration, and political modalities: some American reflections on the European project after the financial crisis
  • Pieter Bekker, Diffusion of law: the world court as a court of transnational justice
  • Charles Brower & Stephan Schill, Regulating counsel conduct before international arbitral tribunals
  • Jan Dalhuisen, International arbitrators as equity judges
  • William Dodge, Customary international law in United States courts: the origins of the later-in-time rule
  • Peter Murray, Mediation and civil justice: a public-private partnership?
  • William Park, The borders of bias: rectitude in international arbitration
  • Julia Ya Qin, Managing conflicts between rulings of the WTO and regional trade tribunals: reflections on the Brazil-Tyres case
  • Catherine Rogers, Cross-border bankruptcy as a model for the regulation of international attorneys