Screen LibraryGlobal lawmakers : International organizations in the crafting of world markets /
Offers the extensive empirical study of commercial lawmaking within the United Nations. It shows who makes law for the world, how they make it, and who comes out ahead. Using extensive and unique data, the book investigates three episodes of lawmaking between the late 1990s and 2012. Through its ori...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge studies in law and society
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Offers the extensive empirical study of commercial lawmaking within the United Nations. It shows who makes law for the world, how they make it, and who comes out ahead. Using extensive and unique data, the book investigates three episodes of lawmaking between the late 1990s and 2012. Through its original socio-legal orientation, it reveals dynamics of competition, cooperation and competitive cooperation within and between international organizations, including the UN, World Bank, IMF and UNIDROIT, as these IOs craft international laws. |
| Carrier Form: | xix, 456 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-444) and index. |
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9781316638163 1316638162 9781107187580 1107187583 |
| Index Number: | K3316 |
| CLC: | D996.1 |
| Call Number: | D996.1/B651 |
| Contents: | 1. Lawmaking ecologies for global markets -- 2. Emergence of a lawmaking ecology -- 3. Issue ecologies in formation -- 4. Delegations and delegates -- 5. The work of lawmaking6. Creative design in legal technologies -- 7. Whose global norms? -- 8. The lawmaking of lawmaking -- 9. Rivalries -- 10. Inventive global governance. |