Radha D'Souza (University of Westminster) has posted A Radical Turn in International Law and Development?: Corporations, States and Imperial Governance (Canadian Journal of Development Studies: Special Issue on Law, Governance & Development: Critical and Heterodox Approaches 43, no. 1 (2022): 20-38) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This article describes how the liberal orthodoxy informing the field known as “Law and Development” (L&D), as a field of knowledge, obscures contemporary imperial and neo-colonial governance practices. Through the metaphor of the disciplinary ‘picket fence,’ and engagement with three nodes of tension from colonial governance reproduced today, it reveals L&D’s limited and partial production of knowledge on governance by two key actors - transnational corporations and capitalist states. This article argues for a new, more explicitly critical, trajectory of research that foregrounds the corporation-nation governance nexus within a more radical international Law & Development (ILD) field of research.
