... do. A central premise of the law in action approach is that the analysis of formal rules and procedures does not fully account for how those rules are used in practice. Accounting for the use of the WTO begins with a characterization of how legal actors construct the good case in dispute settlement...

...This chapter examines the social science of law and justice, noting that jurisprudence studies the sources of law and the variable authority of legal precepts. It considers the rule of law, legal orders, law in action, and natural law. Legal orders are seen as integral, many-faceted parts...