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Economic law and the laws of economics -- Money, exchange rates, and the balance of payments -- The general agreement on tariffs and trade : origins and overview -- Evolution of the GATT and GATT law -- The GATT/WTO system after the Uruguay Round : a preliminary survey -- The international exchange of services and the creation of GATS -- Dispute resolution in the GATT, 1948-94 -- Dispute settlement in the WTO -- The question of subsidies -- Dumping and anti-dumping -- Agriculture -- Intellectual property law and the world trading system -- The environment and international economic law -- Competition law -- The responsibility of host states to foreign investors : customary international law -- Dispute settlement and international investment -- Evolving standards of international law on international investment -- The Bretton Woods System -- The international monetary fund as amended -- The international monetary system and regional crises -- Other institutions of the international monetary system -- The European Monetary System and the rise of the Euro -- International monetary law and private activity -- United Nations and other collective sanctions -- Economic sanctions without benefit of treaty.