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DESCRIPTION:The Legal Theory Workshops and the L. Yves Fortier Chair in Int
 ernational Arbitration and International Commercial Law are pleased to hos
 t Krzysztof J. Pelc\, Department of Political Science\, 91Ö±²¥.
   Abstract  There is no formal binding precedent in international law. Yet
 \, as this article (view on SSRN) demonstrates\, countries nonetheless exp
 end considerable resources in seeking to shape legal precedent. Looking at
  the international trade regime\, I show that while some disputes are init
 iated to gain market access in response to domestic interests\, others are
  filed primarily to build favorable precedent for future cases of greater 
 commercial value. I construct an original dataset consisting of the networ
 k of all rulings spanning the WTO period\, and the cases they cite. I anal
 yze this network to provide systematic evidence for the existence of 'test
  cases' in international law: countries initiate commercially unimportant 
 disputes to shape legal precedent to their advantage. And wealthy countrie
 s with high legal capacity are significantly better able to do so. While t
 he existence of binding precedent in international law remains a point of 
 continuous debate\, countries observably behave in a manner consistent wit
 h its existence.  About the speaker  Krzysztof J. Pelc is an assistant pro
 fessor in the Department of Political Science at 91Ö±²¥. His re
 search is in international political economy\, with a focus on internation
 al rules.  He is interested in how the design of rules affects odds of coo
 peration\, and how it benefits some countries over others. Much of this wo
 rk looks specifically at the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO). 
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LOCATION:NCDH 202\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 36
 44 rue Peel
SUMMARY:The Politics of Precedent in International Law: A Social Network Ap
 plication
URL:/law/channels/event/politics-precedent-internation
 al-law-social-network-application-231163
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