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Letting Go Of ‘The Normal’ In Pursuit Of An Ever-Elusive Real: A Proposal For Innovation In International Law And Economics Theory And Scholarship, Dan Danielsen

Dan Danielsen

This essay surveys and critically assesses international law and economics scholarship as it has evolved since the 1990s as a distinct strand of international legal theory. In this work, international law and economics scholars have sought to demonstrate the virtues of certain forms of economic modelling techniques for answering questions of institutional arrangement and jurisdictional authority that have posed challenges central to the discipline of international law such as which institutions should make which rules in the global order and whose rules ought to apply in what circumstances. Without denying the importance of these issues, many significant global issues that …