Description: Increased international interdependence - globalization - has also greatly increased the potential for international conflict in various areas such as trade, competition, the environment, and human rights. Observers have counted up to 40 international courts that serve to settle such conflicts. What are adequate criteria to measure the effectiveness of international courts? What factors explain the differences in their success? What factors explain the differences of nation-state governments in delegating competence to international courts in the first place? Should there be any additional courts? This volume assembles ten papers and comments that contain first steps in answering these questions. Their authors are legal scholars and economists, but also political scientists and philosophers. With this volume the Jahrbuch fur Neue Politische Okonomie has changed its title to Conferences on New Political Economy.
Brief description: Stefan Voigt, holds the chair for institutional and international economics at Philipps University Marburg and is affiliated with the International Center for Economic Research (ICER) in Torino, Italy.Max Albert, Geboren 1959; 1992 Dr. rer. pol. und 1998 Habilitation an der Universitat Konstanz; 1998 bis 2003 Professor fur Wirtschaftswissenschaft an der Universitat Koblenz-Landau in Landau; 2003 bis 2007 Inhaber des Lehrstuhls fur Wirtschaftstheorie an der Universitat des Saarlandes; seit 2007 Professor fur Verhaltens- und Institutionenokonomik an der Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giessen.Dieter Schmidtchen, holds the chair for Public Policy and Managerial Economics at University of the Saarland and is director of the Center for the Study of Law and Economics, Saarbrucken.