Standards in international economic law. Contribution to the study of international normativity

The international economic law, often criticized as inefficient, or even nonexistent, has, nowadays, a renewal of its normativity. Indeed, the technique of legal standard allows international economic law to be efficient and to set limits to the action of all of its actors. In this frame, standards hold a significant place in the international economic law. On one side, this importance can be valued ratione personae, in the way that all the actors of international economic law contribute to a lasting establishment of the legal standard technique in the international economic law, promoting in this way the international economic law normativity. On the other side, it can be valued ratione materiae, since all the fields of the international economic law are marked by the legal standard technique. But the obvious importance of the standards existence isn’t so indisputably reflected in their role. In spite of the fact that standards have a real role to play in the implementation of the law, this role often appears as controversial. Standards, whose role is to be normative and regulating, are often depicted as detracting the coherence and the security of law. But, this assertion should be put in perspective because standards have to be considered, from now on, as the best norm to regulate the action of the international economic law subjects and to contribute of the international economic law normativity.