The Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development

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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.

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The Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development is a unique overview of the field of international law and development, examining how normative beliefs and assumptions around development are instantiated in law, and critically examining disciplinary frameworks, competing agendas, legal actors and institutions, and alternative futures.

Résumé
Since the mid-twentieth century, 'international law' and 'international development' have become two of the most prominent secular languages through which aspirations about a better world are articulated.. They have shaped the both the treatment and self-understanding of the 'developing' world, often by positing the West as a universal model against which developing states, their citizens, and natural environments should be measured and disciplined. In recent years, however, critical scholars have investigated the deep linkages between the concept of development, the doctrines and institutions of international law, and broader projects of ordering at the international level. They have shown how the leading models de-radicalise, if not derail, initiatives to redefine development and pursue other forms of global well-being. Bringing together scholars from both the Global South and the Global North, the contributions in this Handbook invite readers to consider the limits of common normative and developmentalist assumptions. At the same time, the Handbook demonstrates how disparate but still identifiable set of ideas, imaginaries, norms, and institutional practices - related to law, development and international governance - shape today's profoundly unequal material conditions, threatening the future of human and nonhuman life on the planet. The book focuses on five distinct areas: existing disciplinary frameworks, institutions and actors, regional theatres of international law and development, competing social and economic agendas, and alternative futures. Offering a unique overview of the field of international law and development and assembling major critical, historical, and political economic insights, this Handbook is an unmissable resource for scholars of international law, international relations, development studies, and global history, as well as anyone interested in the past, present, and future of our world.

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• I: Disciplinary Frameworks

• 1: Ruth Buchanan, Luis Eslava, Caitlin Murphy, and Sundhya Pahuja: Making and Remaking the World Anew: International Law and the Development Project

• 2: Philipp Dann: The Law of International Development

• 3: Donatella Alessandrini and Jeremmy Okonjo: The Global Economic Order and Development

• 4: Jennifer L Beard: Charities, Philanthropic Organisations, and International Development

• 5: Shane Chalmers: The Rule of Law and International Development

• II: Institutions

• 6: Luis Eslava, Caitlin Murphy, and Sundhya Pahuja: Development, International Law, and the State

• 7: Guy Fiti Sinclair: A Better Way of World Making? International Law and Development at the United Nations

• 8: Robi Rado: The Bretton Woods Institutions: Custodians of Development

• 9: Nicolas M Perrone: The International Trade Order and Development

• 10: Helmut Philipp Aust and Alejandro Rodiles: Cities and Local Governments: International Development from Below?

• III: Regional Actors and Theatres of International Law and Development

• 11: Obiora Okafor and Maxwel Miyawa: Africa as a 'Theatre' of International Law and Development: Knowledge, Practice, and Resistance

• 12: Helena Alviar Garcia and Lina Buchely Ibarra: Latin America in Law and Development

• 13: Raza Saeed: The Evolution of Development and the South Asian Experience

• 14: Rebecca Monson, Keith Camacho, and Joseph Foukona: Re-Storying Law and Development in Oceania

• 15: Kangle Zhang: International Law, Development, and the Making of a Chinese Model

• 16: Gamze Erden Turkelli: EU led Development: From Colonial Enterprise to Coaxial Policy Instrument

• 17: Leila Brannstrom and Markus Gunneflo: Images of the North: The Nordic Promise of Development

• IV: The Agendas

• 18: Michael Fakhri and Titlayo Adebola: Agriculture in International Law and Development

• 19: M Sornarajah: International Law and Development: Foreign Investment

• 20: Miranda Stewart and Prasanna Nidumolu: International Tax Law and Development

• 21: Amy J Cohen and Andrew Lang: Ethical Markets and Economic Development: How Fair Trade Produced a Neoliberal 'Social'

• 22: Diamond Ashiagbor and Kerry Rittich: Labour and Labour Law in the Project of International Development

• 23: Doris Buss: Women and the Family in International Law and Development

• 24: Gina Heathcote and Olivia Lwabukuna: Gender and Sexuality in International Law and Development

• 25: John Harrington: 'Mtu ni Afya': Health, Development, and the Third World, Then and Now

• 26: Beverley Jacobs and Jeffery Hewitt: Indigeneity: Practices of Indigenous International Law

• 27: Joel Modiri: Global White Supremacy as/and Worldmaking: 'Race' in International Law and Development

• 28: Usha Natarajan: International Law and Sustainable Development

• 29: Nina Araneta-Alana: Climate Finance and Governance in International Law and Development

• 30: Alex P Dela Cruz: 'The Ocean We Want': Development and the Oceanic Future in International Law

• 31: Florian F Hoffman and Danielle Rached: Human Rights and Development

• 32: Priya S Gupta: Property in Law and Development

• 33: Vasuki Nesiah: Transitional Justice and Development: Governance at the End of History

• 34: George B Radics and Pablo Ciocchini: Law and Order: Legal Institutions and Penal Populism

• 35: Sanya Samtani: Educational Materials as a Technology for Development

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