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ItemGlobal Poverty and the Politics of Good Intentions(Hart Publishing, 2014)In the West, the terrain of a great deal of public debate around poverty is largely delimited by two figurations; activism and expertise. For the activist, fighting global poverty has become the moral cause of a new generation, inspiring rock songs and wrist bands, and legions of celebrities from whom charity is the new accessory.
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ItemRival Worlds and the Place of the Corporation in International Law(Oxford University Press, 2019)Struggles in the arena of international law and institutions in the years between 1955 and 1974 should be understood not so much as a battle to control a preexisting international law in an already- constituted world, but rather as marking a series of encounters between rival practices of world- making, which travelled with rival accounts of international law. The question of the corporation— how it should be understood, its relationship to both law and the state, and how it travels— was a key element of those rival worlds.
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ItemChanging the World: The Ethical Impulse and International Law(Monash University Press, 2017)
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ItemRethinking Iran and International Law: The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Case Revisited(Koninklijke Brill NV, 2017)In this essay, we take up the invitation to think about Iran and international law in historical context by revisiting the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Case of 1952 through a lens we call ‘historically inflected jurisprudence’.
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ItemCorporations, Universalism, and the Domestication of Race in International Law(Cambridge University Press, 2019)In 1960, Frantz Fanon, a Martiniquan, French trained psychiatrist, wrote not long before his death that when ‘[l]ooking at the immediacies of the colonial context, it is clear that what divides this world is first and foremost what species, what race one belongs to. In the colonies the economic infrastructure is also a superstructure. The cause is effect: You are rich because you are white, you are white because you are rich.’ Some forty years later, in a seminal article about ‘global justice’, philosopher Thomas Pogge wrote, ‘[w]e are quite tolerant of the persistence of massive and severe poverty abroad even though it would not cost us much to reduce such poverty dramatically. How well does this tolerance really fit with our commitment to moral universalism?’
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ItemPublic Debt, the Peace of Utrecht and the Rivalry between Company and State(Brill, 2019)This chapter draws on the idiom of jurisdictional thinking to re- describe the Peace of Utrecht, and the events leading up to it, in terms of the rivalry in the late 17th and early 18th centuries in England, between the sovereign- territorial arrangements we now call the state, and commercial- political groupings of merchants associated in the juridical form of the joint- stock company. It suggests that in the context of this rivalry over public authority, the Peace of Utrecht marks a moment in which the practices of contest and relation between those rival actors, and their rival forms of associational life, can be seen to have been shaped and conducted through the new instrumentality of public debt. More precisely, it will suggest that the particular treaties of the Peace of Utrecht were, at least in one dimension, instruments by which borrower and creditor were brought together, or joined, and which shaped the way that relation - and contest - travelled, and particularly moved 'Southward' for both Company and State.
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ItemRival jurisdictions: The promise and loss of sovereignty(Routledge-Cavendish, 2009-10-05)