This article introduces a methodological framework to study institutions in European and
Asian energy markets with a comparative case study on the EU and east Asia. A distinction …

Can multilateral treaties succeed in transforming conduct when they are rejected by the most
powerful states in the international system? In the past two decades, coalitions of middle …

In many ways, the United States' post-9/11 engagement with legal rules is puzzling. Officials
in both the Bush and Obama administrations authorized numerous contentious …

Political scientists and legal scholars have increasingly explored the concepts of hard and
soft law in international governance. 1 Although the concept of soft law remains to some …

In the past two decades, a series of major multilateral treaties were created in the absence of
support—and often in the face of sustained opposition—from the United States and other …

A casual observer might expect that international lawyers and international relations
scholars would share overlapping research interests and scholarly agendas. In fact, for …

Law following and law breaking are often conceptualised as polar opposites. However,
authorities in liberal democracies increasingly deploy a strategy of what I call plausible …

Ronald Dworkin maintains that a system of coercive government is a genuinely legal one if
and only if it exhibits fidelity to a conception of the rule of law as valuable for the constitutive …

Conventional wisdom holds that the creation of international, court-like institutions helps
countries to peacefully settle trade conflicts, thereby enhancing overall welfare. Many have …

Drawing specifically on the international climate regime, Simone Schiele examines
international environmental regimes from a legal perspective and analyses a core feature of …