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Global Lawmakers

International Organizations in the Crafting of World Markets

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

AvSusan Block-Lieb,Terence C. Halliday

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Global lawmaking by international organizations holds the potential for enormous influence over world trade and national economies. Representatives from states, industries, and professions produce laws for worldwide adoption in an effort to alter state lawmaking and commercial behaviors, whether of giant multi-national corporations or micro, small and medium-sized businesses. Who makes that law and who benefits affects all states and all market players. Global Lawmakers offers the first 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. Global Lawmakers proposes an original theory of international organizations that seek to construct transnational legal orders within social ecologies of lawmaking. The book concludes with an appraisal of creative global governance by the UN in international commerce over the past fifty years and examines prospective challenges for the twenty-first century.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-10-26
Mått151 x 227 x 25 mm
Vikt680 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Studies in Law and Society
Antal sidor474
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781316638163

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Susan Block-Lieb is the Cooper Family Professor in Urban Legal Issues at Fordham University, New York, School of Law. Terence C. Halliday is Co-Director at the Center on Law and Globalization, and Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. He is Honorary Professor at the School of Regulation and Global Governance, the Australian National University, Canberra, and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University, Illinois.

'A magnificent book on who makes the commercial law of the world, and how. Beautifully written, its pages present an ethnography of transnational legal orders and insurgent orders. Insider accounts divulge how order evolves in circumstances of intersecting financial, trade and transport complexity. Actors in this amazing story make new legal boundaries, blur boundaries, extend boundaries and constrict them. Block-Lieb and Halliday deftly and evocatively explain dynamic ecologies of global lawmaking. Their research excavates the spaces where inventive global governance can indeed prove possible. This work of rich new insight reveals the processes through which governance is crafted. We learn no less than how the infrastructure of global capitalism is built.' John Braithwaite, Distinguished Professor and Founder, School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University, Canberra