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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.

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. Thei... MORE

Professor Detlev Vagts	p. iii
List of contributors	p. xi
Foreword: the transnationalism of Detlev Vagts	p. xv
List of cases cited	p. xviii
List of abbreviations and acronyms	p. xxx
Introduction: a Festschrift to celebrate Detlev Vagts' contributions to transnational law	p. 1
Detlev Vagts and the Harvard Law School	p. 7
Constructing and developing transnation... MORE	p. 10
International law in general	p. 17
�Hegemonic international law' in retrospect	p. 19
Textual interpretation and (international) law reading: the myth of (in)determinacy and the genealogy of meaning	p. 34
The changing role of the State in the globalising world economy	p. 56
Sources of human rights obligations binding the UN Security Council	p. 71
Is transnational law eclipsing international law?	p. 93
Participation in the World Trade Organisation and foreign direct investment: national or European Union competences	p. 108
From dualism to pluralism: the relationship between international law, European law and domestic law	p. 132
Transnational law comprises constitutional, administrative, criminal and quasi-private law	p. 154
Founding myths, international law, and voting rights in the District of Columbia	p. 174
The tormented relationship between international law and EU law	p. 198
International law scholarship in times of dictatorship and democracy: exemplified by the life and work of Wilhelm Wengler	p. 222
Transnational economic law	p. 243
Sovereignty-plus in the era of interdependence: toward an international convention on combating human rights violations by Transnational Corporations	p. 245
The noisy secrecy: Swiss banking law in international dispute	p. 285
Not-for-profit organisations, conflicts of laws and the right of establishment under the EC Treaty	p. 298
The meaning of 'investment' in the ICSID Convention	p. 326
Toward a proper perspective of the private company's distinctiveness	p. 357
Administrative law and international law: the encounter of an odd couple	p. 380
Making transnational law work through regime-building: the case of international investment law	p. 406
Creditor protection in international law	p. 431
Stability, integration and political modalities: some American reflections on the European project after the financial crisis	p. 453
Transnational lawyering and dispute resolution	p. 469
Diffusion of law: the International Court of Justice as a court of transnational justice	p. 471
Regulating counsel conduct before international arbitral tribunals	p. 488
International arbitrators as equity judges	p. 510
Customary international law, Congress and the courts: origins of the later-in-time rule	p. 531
Mediation and civil justice: a public-private partnership?	p. 560
The borders of bias: rectitude in international arbitration	p. 577
Managing conflicts between rulings of the World Trade Organization and regional trade tribunals: reflections on the Brazil - Tyres case	p. 601
Cross-border bankruptcy as a model for the regulation of international attorneys	p. 630
Bibliography	p. 655
Index	p. 662
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Pieter H. F. Bekker is a member of the Bar of New York and teaches international investment law and arbitration at Columbia Law School in New York. Rudolf Dolzer is Professor of International and European Law at the University of Bonn. Michael Waibel is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, with a focus on international economic law.

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