Global lawmakers : International organizations in the crafting of world markets / Susan Block-Lieb, Fordham Universit, Terence C. Halliday, American Bar Foundation.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Block-Lieb, Susan, 1958- author.

Halliday, Terence C. (Terence Charles), author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legislation.

Legislative bodies.

Foreign trade regulation.

International organization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 456 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Lawmaking ecologies for global markets

Emergence of a lawmaking ecology

Issue ecologies in formation

Delegations and delegates / Susan Block-Lieb, Terence C. Halliday, Josh Paciewicz

The work of lawmaking

Creative design in legal technologies

Whose global norms?

The lawmaking of lawmaking

Rivalries

Inventive global governance.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Nov 2017).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781316941508

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.