The Economic Structure of International Law.

The Economic Structure of International Law. By Joel P. Trachtman. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. xii, 354. Index. $55.00, 40.95 [pounds sterling], 49.50 [euro].

Before the late 1980s, a legal scholar who perused the social science literature on the efficacy of international law would face very slim pickings. But then about twenty years ago, Kenneth Abbott and Anne Marie Slaughter broke new ground when they brought insights from the political science subdiscipline of international relations to the forefront of international law inquiries. (1) That scholarship has since multiplied; thoughts about how and when international law influences state behavior now fill books and articles across political science departments and law schools.

In The Economic Structure of International Law, Joel Trachtman, a law professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, offers a fresh p...

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