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100	1		_aVan Den Meerssche, Dimitri _eauthor _9145116
245	1	4	_aThe world bank's lawyers : _bthe life of international law as institutional practice / _cDimitri van den Meerssche.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2208
264		1	_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c2022.
300			_axvi, 320 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aThe History and theory of international law
504			_aBIBINDX
505	0		_a1. Introduction: The Life of International Law -- On People, Practices, and Performances -- 2. The 'Force of Law' Under Construction -- Sensibility, Authority, Performativity -- 3. The 'Force of Law' Performed -- The Institutional Politics of Legal Practice -- 4. Law's Metamorphosis -- Rupture, Reconstruction, and Recollection -- 5. 'Of course we are bound by those' -- Dañino's Human Rights Agenda -- 6. Law as Management -- An Agenda of Cultural Change -- 7. 'A new normative architecture' -- Risk, Resilience and Deformalization -- 8. Conclusion: Assembling the Actants of International Law.
520			_a"The World Bank's Lawyers gives an original socio-legal account of the evolving institutional life of international law. Informed by months of participant observation, dozens of interviews, oral archives, informal memoranda and documents obtained through freedom-of-information requests, it tells an untold story of the World Bank's legal department. This is a story of people and the beliefs they have, the influence they seek and the tools they employ. It is an account of the practices they cling to and how these practices gain traction, or how they fail to do so, in an international bureaucracy. Inspired by Actor-Network Theory, relational sociologies of association and performativity theory, this ethnographic exploration multiplies the matters of concern in our study of international law(yering): the human and non-human, material and semantic, obscure and evasive actants that tie together the fragile fabric of legality. In tracing these threads, the book signals important changes in the conceptual repertoire and materiality of international legal practice, as liberal ideals were gradually displaced by managerial modes of evaluation. It reveals a world teeming with life - a space where professional postures and prototypes, aesthetic styles and technical routines are woven together in law's shifting mode of existence. This history of international law as a contingent cultural technique enriches our understanding of the discipline's disenchantment and the displacement of its traditional tropes by unexpected and unruly actors. It thereby inspires new ways of critical thinking about international law's political pathways, promises and pathologies, as its language is inscribed in ever-evolving rationalities of rule"-- _cProvided by publisher.
610	2	0	_aWorld Bank. _bLegal Department _9145117
650		0	_aInternational law _9117682
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