There is a great deal of institutional energy in the field of international law currently channelled into a debate about the relationship between trade and human rights. Much of this literature focuses on the human rights effects of the World Trade Organization and the trade agreements negotiated and implemented under its auspices. Texts dealing with this question can be found in activist essays, scholarly literature and the reports of international institutions. Most such texts engage with the substantive content of trade or human rights law. The end of such scholarship is to produce an account of the best way to achieve a particular normative commitment, such as justice, efficiency, economic integration, human dignity or the rule of law. This chapter pauses to reflect upon a prior question: what are the forms of law which transmit, frame or accompany these substantive obligations and normative commitments? Focusing on this question of the forms of law embodied in the two fields of trade and human rights is helpful, perhaps even necessary, in developing an understanding of the relationship of liberal democratic politics to global capitalist economics.