PART Ⅰ LEGISLATION AND REGULATION 3
1.Constitutional design of lawmaking&Stefan Voigt 3
2.General characteristics of rules&Louis Kaplow 18
3.Rules versus standards&Barbara Luppi and Francesco Parisi 43
4.The optimal timing of lawmaking&Nita Ghei 54
5.Production of legal rules by agencies and bureaucracies&Georg von Wangenheim 62
PART Ⅱ JUDGE-MADE LAW 93
6.Judge-made law&Paul H.Rubin 93
7.Common law and economic efficiency&Todd J.Zywicki and Edward Peter Stringham 107
8.Bias in the common law&Jef De Mot 132
9.Legal traditions and economic performance： theory and evidence&Carmine Guerriero 144
PART Ⅲ SOCIAL NORMS AND CUSTOMS 167
10.The focal point theory of expressive law&Richard H.McAdams 167
11.Countervailing norms&Emanuela Carbonara， Francesco Parisi and Georg von Wangenheim 185
12.Social stigma&Michael Faure and Laarni Escresa 205
13.Self-regulation&Anthony Ogus and Emanuela Carbonara 228
PART Ⅳ INTERNATIONAL LAW 255
14.International law as a source of law&Paul B.Stephan 255
15.International treaties&Vincy Fon 272
16.Customary international law&Jef De Mot， Vincy Fon and Francesco Parisi 293
17.International organization： institutions and order in world politics&Alexander Thompson and Duncan Snidal 309
PART Ⅴ FEDERALISM， LEGAL HARMONIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT 339
18.Federalism&Robert P.Inman and Daniel L.Rubinfeld 339
19.Legal harmonization&Enrico Baffi and Paolo Santella 366
20.Forum shopping and the evolution of rules of choice of law&Nita Ghei 376
21.The law and economics of regulatory competition&Jonathan Klick 386
22.Growth-oriented legal reforms&Robert Cooter and Hans-Bernd Schafer 400
Index 419