Most scholars attribute the development and ubiquity of global value chains to economic forces, treating law as an exogenous factor, if at all. By contrast, we assert the centrality of legal regimes and private ordering mechanisms to the creation, structure, geography, distributive effects and...

This article argues that contemporary resistance to capital concentration in food markets presents an opportunity to reconstruct legal arguments for economic self-governance — arguments that were once very familiar in American law but have since receded from view. The article combines a legal...