Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development

by Buchanan, Ruth; Eslava, Luis; Pahuja, Sundhya

• ISBN13: 9780192867360
• ISBN10: 0192867369
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2024-01-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Ruth Buchanan, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School,Luis Eslava, Reader in International Law, University of Kent,Sundhya Pahuja, Director, University of Melbourne

Dr. Ruth Buchanan is a Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, in Toronto, Canada. An interdisciplinary legal scholar whose work spans critical legal theory, sociology of law, international law and development and cultural legal studies, Dr. Buchanan has published numerous articles and book chapters in Canada, Australia, the UK, and the US. Her current research projects include an investigation into the significance of the visual in framing North/South relations in law and development policy, funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In 2022, she edited a special issue of the Osgoode Hall Law School Law Journal called Visualizing Development.

Luis Eslava holds a Research Professorial Chair in International Law at La Trobe University, Australia and he is also Professor of International Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent, United Kingdom. His research interests are located at the intersection between international law, development and global governance. Bringing together insights from anthropology, history and legal and social theory, his work focuses on the multiple ways in which international norms, aspirations and institutional practices, both old and new, come to shape and become part of everyday life, particularly in the Global South. He is the author of Local Space, Global Life: The Everyday Operation of International Law and Development (CUP, 2015), and co-editor of Bandung, Global History, and International Law: Critical Pasts, Pending Futures (CUP, 2017).

Sundhya Pahuja is ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Professor, Director of the Laureate Program in Global Corporations and International Law, and co-director of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities both at the Melbourne Law School. She is known for her work on the encounter between plural forms of international law, and the legal, historical, political and economic dimensions of the relations between Global South and North.

Table of Contents

I: Disciplinary Frameworks
1. Making and Remaking the World Anew: International Law and the Development Project, Ruth Buchanan, Luis Eslava, Caitlin Murphy, and Sundhya Pahuja
2. The Law of International Development, Philipp Dann
3. The Global Economic Order and Development, Donatella Alessandrini and Jeremmy Okonjo
4. Charities, Philanthropic Organisations, and International Development, Jennifer L Beard
5. The Rule of Law and International Development, Shane Chalmers
II: Institutions
6. Development, International Law, and the State, Luis Eslava, Caitlin Murphy, and Sundhya Pahuja
7. A Better Way of World Making? International Law and Development at the United Nations, Guy Fiti Sinclair
8. The Bretton Woods Institutions: Custodians of Development, Robi Rado
9. The International Trade Order and Development, Nicolas M Perrone
10. Cities and Local Governments: International Development from Below?, Helmut Philipp Aust and Alejandro Rodiles
III: Regional Actors and Theatres of International Law and Development
11. Africa as a 'Theatre' of International Law and Development: Knowledge, Practice, and Resistance, Obiora Okafor and Maxwel Miyawa
12. Latin America in Law and Development, Helena Alviar Garcia and Lina Buchely Ibarra
13. The Evolution of Development and the South Asian Experience, Raza Saeed
14. Re-Storying Law and Development in Oceania, Rebecca Monson, Keith Camacho, and Joseph Foukona
15. International Law, Development, and the Making of a Chinese Model, Kangle Zhang
16. EU led Development: From Colonial Enterprise to Coaxial Policy Instrument, Gamze Erden Turkelli
17. Images of the North: The Nordic Promise of Development, Leila Brannstrom and Markus Gunneflo
IV: The Agendas
18. Agriculture in International Law and Development, Michael Fakhri and Titlayo Adebola
19. International Law and Development: Foreign Investment, M Sornarajah
20. International Tax Law and Development, Miranda Stewart and Prasanna Nidumolu
21. Ethical Markets and Economic Development: How Fair Trade Produced a Neoliberal 'Social', Amy J Cohen and Andrew Lang
22. Labour and Labour Law in the Project of International Development, Diamond Ashiagbor and Kerry Rittich
23. Women and the Family in International Law and Development, Doris Buss
24. Gender and Sexuality in International Law and Development, Gina Heathcote and Olivia Lwabukuna
25. 'Mtu ni Afya': Health, Development, and the Third World, Then and Now, John Harrington
26. Indigeneity: Practices of Indigenous International Law, Beverley Jacobs and Jeffery Hewitt
27. Global White Supremacy as/and Worldmaking: 'Race' in International Law and Development, Joel Modiri
28. International Law and Sustainable Development, Usha Natarajan
29. Climate Finance and Governance in International Law and Development, Nina Araneta-Alana
30. 'The Ocean We Want': Development and the Oceanic Future in International Law, Alex P Dela Cruz
31. Human Rights and Development, Florian F Hoffman and Danielle Rached
32. Property in Law and Development, Priya S Gupta
33. Transitional Justice and Development: Governance at the End of History, Vasuki Nesiah
34. Law and Order: Legal Institutions and Penal Populism, George B Radics and Pablo Ciocchini
35. Educational Materials as a Technology for Development, Sanya Samtani
36. Behaviour as a Technology of Development, Elise Klein
37. New Technologies of International Law and Development, Serena Natile
38. Measurement as Development, Ruth Buchanan and Caitlin Murphy
V: Alternative Futures
39. From Poverty and Development to a People's International Law, Ugo Mattei and Margot E Salomon
40. Reinventing Sovereignty: Removing Colonial Legacies, Opening Purinational Futures, Roger Merino