The legal foundations of the international economy--which underpin both the actions of sovereign states, as well as the conduct of individuals and business entities engaged in cross-border transactions--are now more than ever a crucial site for scholarly exploration.

Indeed, with the growing impact of globalization, research in and around the subject flourishes as never before. This new four-volume collection from Routledge meets the need for an authoritative reference work to map a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of literature. Edited by a leading scholar,...