International Financial Institutions and Sustainable Development

Johanna Aleria Lorenzo is an Assistant Professor in Public International Law at the University of Amsterdam. Her perspective on international law's interaction with development, sustainability, and global economic governance, is informed by her upbringing, education, and professional experience in Asia, the United States, and Europe. Johanna received the Ambrose Gherini Prize, the highest prize awarded in the field of international law by Yale Law School, for her doctoral dissertation on which this book is based.

• 1. Introduction: situating (Sustainable) development and non-state actors in international law; 2. Sustainability's journey: snapshots from Stockholm, Rio, Copenhagen, The Hague, Johannesburg, and New York; 3. Detour to Bretton woods: re-constructing the international bank for sustainable development; 4. Public participation and integration: procedural and substantive principles of sustainable development; 5. Safeguard systems: legal institutional framework for sustainability of development projects; 6. IFIs as lawmakers i: hardening international 'soft' law on sustainable development and externalizing 'internal' law on development finance; 7. IFIs as lawmakers II: harmonizing and coordinating towards a droit commun on sustainable development; 8. Institutional lawmaking and international legal accountability: finding remedies for un-sustainable development projects; Conclusion: a place for accountable non-state actors in international sustainable development lawmaking.