The international law of state responsibility determines when states are liable for international law violations. States are generally liable when they have control over the actions of wrongdoers; thus, the actions of state officials can implicate state responsibility whereas the acts of private...

Government contracts are subject to a number of legal rules that have no private sector analogues and that have received virtually no attention from law and economics scholar. This article explores these rules from an economic perspective, with special attention to the leading modern case on the...