Table of contents:
Chapter 1. Lawmaking through legislation : an introduction
Chapter 2. Optimal specificity of laws : rules versus standards
Chapter 3. Optimal timing of legal intervention : lawmaking under uncertainty
Chapter 4. Optimal territorial scope of laws : subsidiarity and legal harmonization
Chapter 5. Lawmaking through adjudication : an introduction
Chapter 6. Litigation and the evolution of legal remedies
Chapter 7. Judicial path-dependence and legal change
Chapter 8. Theories of legal precedent : stare decisis and jurisprudence constante
Chapter 9. Lawmaking through practice : an introduction
Chapter 10. Fostering the emergence of customary law
Chapter 11. Customary law and articulation theories
Chapter 12. Stability and change in customary law
Chapter 13. Lawmaking through agreement : an introduction
Chapter 14. Formation and accession to treaties Ratification and reservations : the effects of reciprocity
The hidden bias of treaty law.