'International Economic Law': Implications for Scholarship

What's in a name?"Does this Journal, or any scholarly endeavor, smell sweeter because it deals with "international economic law" instead of the more prosaic "international business law?"The question has significance beyond the walls of the University of Pennsylvania, for the term "international economic law" is coming into wider use.The American Society of International Law, for example, has an active Interest Group operating under that name, 1 distributes an on-line compilation of documents on the subject, and has itself considered publishing a journal of international economic law.The answer depends, of course, on the kinds of scholarship that "international economic law" is thought to embrace.This essay considers why the new locution is winning acceptance, and what its adoption implies for scholarship, generally and in this Journal.