Decolonising International Law unravels the imperial and emancipatory nature of international law, showing how the idea of economic growth forecloses law's promise of justice, and how the concept of development interacts with the structure of international law to maintain global inequality.
Über den Autor
Sundhya Pahuja is the Director of the Law and Development Research Programme at the Institute for International Law and the Humanities at the University of Melbourne and Visiting Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction; 2. Inaugurating a new rationality; 3. From decolonisation to developmental nation state; 4. From permanent sovereignty to investor protection; 5. From the rule of international law to the internationalisation of the rule of law; 6. Conclusion.
Klappentext
Sundhya Pahuja explores how the concept of development forecloses international law's promise of global justice.
