Li: Interactions between Domestic Social Norms and International Law Over Trade Dispute Resolution

Ji Li (Rutgers Univ., Newark - Law) has posted Interactions between Domestic Social Norms and International Law Over Trade Dispute Resolution (in The Rule of Law at the National and International Levels: Contestations and Deference, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

This chapter explores the dynamic interactions between domestic social norms and international law over trade dispute resolution. Using empirical case studies involving China, EU, US, Korea and Japan, the paper investigates how the dyadic configuration of social norms regarding preferred dispute resolution method impacts the resolution of trade disputes. It creates a new theoretical approach to understand the interfaces between domestic norms and international legal order. The theory predicts a complex development in the acceptance of non-litigious states of the current international legal order for dispute resolution.