Symposium: Socio-Legal Aspects of Adjudication of International Economic Disputes

The latest issue of the Oñati Socio-Legal Series (Vol. 1, no. 4, 2011) contains a symposium on "Socio-Legal Aspects of Adjudication of International Economic Disputes." Contents include:

• Jose Augusto Fontoura Costa, Comparing WTO Panelists and ICSID Arbitrators: the Creation of International Legal Fields
• Daniel Drache, Reform at the top: What's next for the WTO? A second life? A socio-political analysis
• James Flett, From the Green Room to the Court Room (And Back): Judicial Clarification of Ambiguity in WTO Law and the Effects on Subsequent Negotiations
• Gus Van Harten, Contributions and Limitations of Empirical Research on Independence and Impartiality in International Investment Arbitration
• Peter Muchlinski, Corporations and the Uses of Law: International Investment Arbitration as a “Multilateral Legal Order"
• David Schneiderman, Legitimacy and Reflexivity in International Investment Arbitration: A New Self-Restraint?
• Valentina Sara Vadi, Socio-Legal Perspectives on the Adjudication of Cultural Diversity Disputes in International Economic Law
• Karen J. Alter, Laurence R. Helfer, & Osvaldo Saldías, Transplanting the European Court of Justice: The Experience of the Andean Tribunal of Justice
• Gregory Shaffer & Joel Trachtman, Interpretation and Institutional Choice at the WTO