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Rainer Diaz-Bone, Claude Didry &#38; Robert Salais (Eds.) (2015)Historical Social Research, 40(1).The institutional approach of economics of convention (in short, EC) has been established in France over the last three decades and since then received growing international recognition. From its beginnings, EC has introduced a pragmatic as well as a historical perspective on economic coordination and economic institutions. Also, EC has included law in its analysis from the start. EC conceives law not as an external constraint, but as internal to action and coordination open to interpretive and situational adoption by competent actors. Consequently, for the socio-historical analysis of law, EC analyzes the meaning of law from the standpoint of actors which rely in their coordination on conventions. This HSR Special Issue demonstrates that the approach of EC in the socio-historical analysis of law can be a real transdisciplinary alternative to approaches such as “Law &#38; Economics” or economic neo-institutionalism. Rainer Diaz-Bone, Claude Didry &#38; Robert Salais: Conventionalist’s Perspectives on the Political Economy of Law. An Introduction. Rainer Diaz-Bone: Institutionalist and Methodological Perspectives on Law – Contributions of the Economics of Convention. Claude Didry: The Institutional Foundations of “Labor Conventions” in France between the Wars. Christian Bessy: The Dynamics of Law and Conventions. Michela Barbot: When the History of Property Rights Encounters the Economics of Convention. Some Open Questions Starting from European History. Frédéric Marty: Towards an Economics of Convention-Based Approach of the European Competition Policy. Edward Lorenz: Work Organization Conventions and the Declining Competitiveness of the British Shipbuilding Industry, 1930-1970. Lisa Knoll: The Hidden Regulation of Carbon Markets. Noel Whiteside: Who were the Unemployed? Conventions, Classifications and Social Security Law in Britain (1911-1934). Simon Deakin: Juridical Ontology: The Evolution of Legal Form. Robert Salais: Europe, Laboratory for A-Democracy?Open Access