Making Transnational Law Work in the Global Economy : Essays in Honour of Detlev Vagts

This tribute to Professor Detlev Vagts of the Harvard Law School brings together his colleagues at Harvard and the American Society of International Law, as well as academics, judges and practitioners, many of them his former students. Their essays span the entire spectrum of modern transnational law: international law in general; transnational economic law; and transnational lawyering and dispute resolution. The contributors evaluate established fields of transnational law, such as the protection of property and investment, and explore new areas of law which are in the process of detaching themselves from the nation-state such as global administrative law and the regulation of cross-border lawyering. The implications of decentralised norm-making, the proliferation of dispute settlement mechanisms and the rising backlash against global legal interdependence in the form of demands for preserving state legal autonomy are also examined. Detlev Vagts and the Harvard Law School / William Alford Constructing and developing transnational law : the contribution of Detlev Vagts / Henry Steiner "Hegemonic international law" in retrospect / Anthony Anghie Textual interpretation and (international) law reading : the myth of (in)determinacy and the genealogy of meaning / Andrea Bianchi The changing role of the state in the globalizing world economy / Jost Delbruck Sources of human rights obligations binding the UN Security Council / Bardo Fassbender Is transnational law eclipsing international law? / Daniel Kalderimis Participation in WTO and foreign direct investment : national or community competences / Juliane Kokott From dualism to pluralism : the relationship between international law, European law and domestic law / Andreas Paulus Transnational law comprises constitutional, administrative, criminal, and quasi-private law / Anne Peters Founding myths, international law and voting rights in the District of Columbia / Siegfried Wiessner The tormented relationship between international law and EU law / Jan Wouters International law scholarship in times of dictatorship and democracy : exemplified by the life and work of Wilhelm Wengler / Andreas Zimmermann Sovereignty-plus in the era of interdependence : toward an international convention on combating human rights violations by transnational corporations / Olivier De Schutter The noisy secrecy : Swiss banking law in international dispute / Jean Nicolas Druey Not-for-profit organisations, conflicts of laws, and the right of establishment under the EC Treaty / Werner Ebke The meaning of "investment" in the ICSID Convention / Barton Legum and Caline Mouawad Toward a proper perspective of the private company's distinctiveness / George Nnona Administrative law and international law : the encounter of an odd couple / Hernan Perez Loose Making transnational law a reality through regime-building : the case of international investment law / Jeswald Salacuse Creditor protection in international law / Michael Waibel Stability, integration, and political modalities : some American reflections on the European project after the financial crisis / David (Bert) Westbrook Diffusion of law : the World Court as a court of transnational justice / Pieter Bekker Regulating counsel conduct before international arbitral tribunals / Charles Brower and Stephan Schill International arbitrators as equity judges / Jan Dalhuisen Customary international law in United States courts : the origins of the later-in-time rule / William Dodge Mediation and civil justice : a public-private partnership? / Peter Murray The borders of bias : rectitude in international arbitration / William (Rusty) Park Managing conflicts between rulings of the WTO and regional trade tribunals : reflections on the Brazil-Tyres case / Julia Ya Qin Cross-border bankruptcy as a model for the regulation of international attorneys / Catherine Rogers. This book is devoted to the transnational legal revolution, and celebrates one of its key players - Professor Detlev Vagts of the Harvard Law School. Scholars and practitioners from around the globe evaluate the entire spectrum of modern transnational law in thirty-one chapters.