Explaining how international financial law 'works', this text presents an alternative theory for understanding its purpose, operation and limitations.
 Chris Brummer is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University and a Senior Fellow at the Milken Institute. He has also taught, or is slated to teach, at several leading universities as a visiting professor including the universities of Basel, Heidelberg, and the London School of Economics. Brummer's writings have appeared in many leading journals including the California Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, the Southern California Law Review, and the Vanderbilt Law Review. Before becoming a professor, he practiced law in the New York and London offices of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.
 This book explains how international financial law "works" - and presents an alternative theory for understanding its purpose, operation, and limitations. Drawing on a close institutional analysis of the post-crisis financial architecture, it argues that international financial law is often bolstered by a range of reputational, market, and institutional mechanisms that make it more coercive than classical theories of international law predict.
 This book explains how international financial law 'works'.
 This book explains how international financial law 'works' and presents an alternative theory for understanding its purpose, operation, and limitations.